CEO jailed for raping Thai employee

By Park Si-soo

The head of a small manufacturing company was jailed Friday for sexually assaulting two foreign employees in their dorm rooms.

Suwon District Court sentenced the businessman, 49, surnamed Moon, to five years in prison and ordered him to have 120 hours of anti-sexual crime education.

Court documents showed the man, who runs a plastics manufacturing factory in Hwasung, Gyeonggi Province, broke into the room of a Thai employee, hugged her and touched her body without consent in April. The following day, he sneaked into the room of another female employee from Thailand and raped her.

The victims did not call police immediately because they were undocumented. They spoke out two months later through a welfare center for foreign workers.

“It’s a serious crime against foreign workers,” Judge Kim Jung-min said in a ruling statement. “The accused has made little effort to recover the physical and psychological damage of the victims. So I couldn’t allow any tolerance to the man.”