Intern's supervisor resigns
By Chung Min-uck
A woman who filed a complaint against former presidential spokesman Yoon Chang-jung for sexually harassing a female intern quit her job at the Korean Cultural Center (KCC) in Washington.
She reportedly shared a hotel room with a 21-year-old U.S. embassy intern who was allegedly sexually assaulted by Yoon last Tuesday, during President Park Geun-hye’s five-day visit to the United States.
According to informed sources in Washington, after hearing of the incident from the intern, the woman reported it to the KCC. The center did not take her report seriously so she accompanied the intern to report the incident to the police. She quit her job right after the complaint was filed, reports say.
She was in charge of educating about 30 interns hired to help during Park’s visit to the United States.
The center, supervised by the South Korean Embassy in Washington, said, “her resignation is a coincidence,” she already told that she would resign after Park’s visit.
Critics, however, claim that South Korean officials from the embassy could have forced her to do so in order to prevent the scandal from growing.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied Monday any involvement in the incident, including urging the former KCC worker to resign.
On the website of “Missy USA,” an online community for Korean women in the U.S. that initially helped circulate the incident on the Internet, a posting said the KCC director and an embassy official didn’t take the incident seriously when the woman initially complained, angering her to report it directly to the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department.