Restaurant Owner Given Probation for Guest Injury Due to Missing Terrace Railing
"Considering Sales Decline Due to COVID-19"
[Asia Economy Reporter Seongpil Cho] A court has sentenced the owner of a restaurant where a customer was injured due to the absence of railings on the terrace to a suspended fine.
According to the legal community on the 20th, Judge Seung-hoon Song of the Seoul Central District Court Criminal Division 12 sentenced self-employed individual A (55) to a fine of 2 million won with a one-year suspended sentence on charges of professional negligence causing injury.
A, who operates a restaurant in Seocho-gu, Seoul, was brought to trial on charges that last October, customer B was sitting on the first-floor terrace when a chair leg slipped off the terrace, causing B to fall to the ground and sustain injuries to the knee and other areas.
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The court reportedly considered factors such as the recent decline in sales of A’s restaurant due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as reasons for sentencing.
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