Lenient outcome · Comparison Pair · Assault
WeDisk chairman Yang Jin-ho — long-term employee abuse
Harm
Repeated assault of multiple employees over years
Sentence
7y
Court
Suwon District Court
Guideline
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Comparison thesis
A migrant worker's two punches: 8 months prison. A chairman's years-long employee abuse: still light per-count.
Strict outcome
8m
8 months imprisonment, no suspension
Migrant worker imprisoned for workplace fistfight
Migrant worker · Harm: Two punches, minor injury
Lenient outcome · current case
7y
7y imprisonment (1st instance) — later partial reductions
WeDisk chairman Yang Jin-ho — long-term employee abuse
White-collar · Harm: Repeated assault of multiple employees over years
'Flight risk' justified denial of suspension for the migrant — yet the chairman's economic resources were never treated as flight risk, despite the much greater capacity to evade.
Case summary
A widely-circulated 2018 video showed the chairman repeatedly slapping and humiliating employees, forcing one to slaughter a chicken with a sword, and routinely abusing staff. Despite extensive evidence of habitual assault, occupational exploitation and obscenity charges, the trial court issued a 7-year prison sentence — but later proceedings and pleas reduced effective time served, and several civil parallel claims were settled below baseline guidelines for assault-of-this-frequency.
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