Bahk Eun-ji has been with The Korea Times since 2012, building a career across multiple desks. She began at the Business Desk, where she conducted in-depth interviews with key figures in Korea's corporate world. Later, she moved to the Politics & City Desk, focusing on education policy and social affairs. She later served as team leader of the digital content team, leading curation efforts on the newspaper’s homepage and reshaping print stories for social media audiences to enhance digital reach. Now back on the Politics Desk, she covers the National Assembly and the Ministry of National Defense, with a renewed focus on political developments.
Man fined for entering women's locker room to find driver of illegally parked car
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By Bahk Eun-ji
By Bahk Eun-ji
A man was fined for walking into the women's locker room of an indoor swimming pool to find a driver who had parked her car in a way that prevented him moving his car.
The appellate department of Seoul Central District Court said it upheld a lower court ruling that slapped a 700,000 won ($628) fine on the 64-year-old man.
He was accused of breaking into the women's locker room twice at a sports center in Gangnam District in Seoul, in January last year, although a pool manager tried to prevent him from doing so.
The man entered the changing room to find a female member of the center as her vehicle was blocking his car as he was about to head to work after exercising at the gym. He remained at the entrance area for a couple of seconds.
The man admitted all the charges at the lower court, was handed a light penalty, as the court said he did not look into the changing room from the entrance, because the lockers were blocking any view inside and the man did not appear to have any other purpose than to find the driver.
However, the man denied the charges during the appeals' court hearings and insisted that he did not know the changing room was for women. But the appellate court did not accept his claim and upheld the lower court's decision.