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Korean survivor fights for workplace harassment 'justice'

koreatimes.co.kr · 7h · first reportShare

Kept in the dark after reporting her boss for harassment, Korean advocate Baek Song-yi is now campaigning for survivors' right to know how their bullies were disciplined. Baek, 40, experienced first-hand a troubling paradigm in Korea's workplace harassment response, with victims often expected to keep silent while employers have no clear legal duty to tell them how their cases ended. At her former company, a US firm with offices overseas, Baek said she was verbally harassed by her boss, an older man. When she reported him, the company asked her to accept a confidentiality agreement warning she could be fired for disclosing information discussed during the process. "I was just so stunned," Baek told AFP, adding she had believed her employer encouraged victims to come forward. Baek refused to accept the agreement and the investigation went ahead anyway, ultimately upholding her complaint. The company still declined to disclose what disciplinary action had been taken, citing the need to "