EXCLUSIVE: "I Will Kill You" — Delivery Agency Owner Accused of Assaulting Employee with Baseball Bat and Embezzling Insurance Money

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An operator of a delivery agency has been sued after being accused of wielding a baseball bat at an employee and embezzling the victim's industrial accident compensation. The victim, who had been friends with the operator since childhood, stated that he was forced to live like a slave due to constant threats and physical abuse.

Jeong Jiyeon reports exclusively.

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A 35-year-old man, identified as A, who has worked as a delivery driver for an agency in Sejong City for the past six years, claims he has never received a proper salary.

He says he lived solely on pocket money provided by the agency operator, B, who has been a friend from his neighborhood since they were children.

[Gong Hoon (pseudonym): At first, I would receive 50,000 won, 30,000 won, or 100,000 won (per week), and when I asked for a raise, he increased it to 200,000 won.]

A says that whenever he asked for more money, B would resort to violence, and that even those around them could not stop him.

[Agency Associate: Whenever he asked for the money he earned, (the operator) would beat him with a baseball bat. He didn't really care about the eyes of others....]

B allegedly used verbal abuse and physical violence to prevent A from speaking up, and the delivery commissions that A should have received were deposited into the account of B's wife.

["You are really going to die this time. You will die. (Yes, I understand.) You saw OO get hit 20 times with a club in front of you last time, right? Hey, where is the baseball bat? You son of a b, you are going to get hit 30 times."]

[Agency Associate: I heard the sound of 'thwack, thwack, thwack,' and when I looked, he was hitting him. If something didn't please him, he would start with insults and pick up a club. He even seemed proud of it.]

In 2023, A suffered a fractured rib after falling while making a delivery on a rainy day. Nearly 30 million won in industrial accident insurance benefits was deposited into the account of B's family.

Instead of receiving the insurance money, A was forced to continue making deliveries under someone else's name despite his injury.

[Gong Hoon (pseudonym): It was a busy season, so he told me to come out and said he would create an account under someone else's name for me. I was completely a 'slave.' People who haven't experienced it won't know. This gaslighting is something else.]

A explained that he started working for B after his own business failed and he had nowhere else to turn, as B had promised to "save the money I earned and build up a lump sum for me."

Unable to endure any longer, A filed a complaint with the police, claiming that B had taken over 300 million won from him. The police have booked B on charges of fraud and special assault and have recently conducted multiple search and seizure operations.

(Video Editing: Yoon Tae-ho, VJ: Noh Jae-min)
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