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buymybook
Joined: 21 Feb 2005
Location: Telluride
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 Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:35 pm Post subject: Non payment of salary is a Crime in S. Korea |
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In the past I went to the labor ministry, and won the ruling. The hagwon was ordered to pay, they didn't. I went to civil court and won the ruling there a year and a half later. It took me another 6 months to get my money through an Attorney.
Recently, I filed a criminal complaints at the court house. The list of complaints was long which included the non-payment of salary. The court gave my complaint to a police station. The police station questioned me twice and 75 days later ruled that the hagwon was NOT guilty.
Some of the other complaints I had on video, they included breaking/entering(on video) etc...In that video clip a police man within the juristiction of the same police station stood there watching. In my complaint I suggested the stupid cop didn't do anything to get my side of the story at the time(he could have called an English speaking cop to the scene) about the hagwon firing me illegally, not paying me, and then hiring a locksmith to change the lock/kick me out of the house/spit on me/assault me/take my luggage out of the house.
I will learn more about the letter(interpreted) from the cop shop about any possible steps I need to take? That cop shop can't be the final stop? |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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It's quite possible that the Korean authorities have felt that due punishment has taken place against the hagwon. It's all about "face" here. They don't want to damage this hagwon owners "face" or pride any more.
This country is corrupt. There is little actual justice here. Especially when considering those who are lower vs. those considered to be in a higher position.
Think of the hundreds of thousands who were pardoned for their tax crimes by the president in recent years. Think of the Hyundai executive who set up a squad of thugs to beat-up people at a nightclub. They all got off scott-free.
This country is crap for justice. Sad to say, but maybe you would have been better off investing your money in a group of thugs to go bash his head in. That's what a lot of Koreans would have done.
In any case, it sounds like you have really embarrased this idiot, and gotten some money out of him. I sincerely hope that you let us all know who this is some day, and create a site such as "Prisoner of Wonderland." |
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genezorm
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Mokpo
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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Non payment of salary is a Crime in S. Korea
last time i checked prostitution was a crime as well.... |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| So is cheating on taxes, but if I were to list three of the most common crimes in Korea, I would probably not have to look further than this thread.............. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:36 am Post subject: |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
| So is cheating on taxes, but if I were to list three of the most common crimes in Korea, I would probably not have to look further than this thread.............. |
Would abortion crack the top three? Adultery? |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:29 am Post subject: |
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A Country of Liars
by Kim Dae-joong, Chosun Ilbo (July 3, 2005)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200507/200507030027.html
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National Intelligence Service director-designate Kim Seung-kyu, in a lecture he gave late in May when he was justice minister, said: "The three representative crimes of our country are perjury, libel and fraud." In simple comparison, not taking into account population ratio, South Korea saw 16 times as many perjury cases in 2003 than Japan, 39 times as many libel cases and 26 times as many instances of fraud. That is extraordinarily high given Japan's population is three times our own.
The common denominator of the three crimes is lying; in short, we live in a country of liars. The prosecution devotes 70 percent of its work to handling the three crimes, the former justice minister said. And because suspects lie so much, the indictment rate in fraud cases is 19.5 percent, in perjury 29 percent and in libel 43.1 percent. "Internationally, too, there is a perception that South Korea's representative crime is fraud," Kim said, adding that recent major scandals show how rampant lying is in this country. |
Top Court To Review Law Against Adultery
By Kang Shin-who, Korea Times (September 9, 2007)
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/nation_view.asp?newsIdx=9822&categoryCode=117
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Current law punishes an adulterer or adulteress with a maximum two-year prison sentence.
According to Time magazine, about 65 percent of Korean married men had dated other women after they married and 41 percent of women had dated other men.
In a survery on 3,857 adults nationwide on adultery issues by Hankyoreh 21, local weekly magazine, 42 percent of married men said that they had dated other women and 20 percent of women had dated other men. Also, nearly 68 percent of men and 12 percent of women said they had sex out of marriage. |
Policemen Most Vulnerable to Corruption
By Park Si-soo, Korea Times (October 24, 2007)
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/nation_view.asp?newsIdx=12490&categoryCode=117
Companies Rate Low on Transparency Scale
by Kim Soe-jung, JoongAng Daily (October 4, 2006)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2822948 |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 5:15 am Post subject: |
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| Young FRANKenstein wrote: |
| bassexpander wrote: |
| So is cheating on taxes, but if I were to list three of the most common crimes in Korea, I would probably not have to look further than this thread.............. |
Would abortion crack the top three? Adultery? |
What Frank, are you trying to come clean over some issue in your life?
You lost me, friend. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 6:06 am Post subject: |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
| You lost me, friend. |
Just adding to the list of laws not enforced in Korea. You did say you probably wouldn't have to look any further than this thread, no? |
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PRagic
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Pretty good editorial on this topic in a recent Korean Herald written by a bar-certified U.S. lawyer teaching law at Sogang University. Surprised that R.R. hadn't picked up on that and posted it. |
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