"Trusted Colleague..." McDonald's Employee Illegally Filmed Staff Locker Room for 1 Year and 6 Months

In front of a McDonald's store in downtown Seoul. / Photo by Yonhap News

[Asia Economy Reporter Kang Juhee] A man who worked at McDonald's was found to have illegally filmed the employee changing room for one and a half years.

According to the police and McDonald's on the 17th, A (25), who worked at a McDonald's in Changwon, Gyeongnam, illegally filmed the unisex employee changing room from June 2019 to December last year.

A, who started working at the store in May 2019, placed his phone, which was recording video, slanted in the pocket of his outerwear in the changing room so that the interior of the changing room was filmed.

A committed the crime by working 7 hours a day, 5 days a week, starting the recording when he arrived at work and collecting the phone when he left.

His phone contained footage of women changing clothes, with the number of victims investigated to be around 20. Most victims were women in their 20s, and some minors were also reported.

The illegally filmed videos by A amounted to about 100, and it was confirmed that he even classified and edited the videos by individual.

A's crime was uncovered in mid-December last year when an employee changing clothes in the room discovered the phone.

B, a former McDonald's employee who was a victim and present at the discovery, told Yonhap News, "When I found the phone and confronted A, he gave an absurd excuse that he turned on the camera because he had to connect an app to connect the power bank."

B said that A was usually sociable and kind to other employees, adding, "I felt betrayed and furious that the brother I trusted did such a thing."

The store was known to have used the same changing room for both men and women due to limited space.

In response, McDonald's stated that they will conduct daily inspections of the changing rooms and provide annual sexual harassment prevention education to all employees at the store.

The police also reported that they found child sexual exploitation videos, presumed to have been downloaded from the Telegram "Baksa Bang," on A's external hard drive.

Meanwhile, A is currently detained and awaiting trial on charges of violating the Special Act on the Punishment of Sexual Crimes (filming using a camera, etc.) and the Act on the Protection of Children and Juveniles from Sexual Abuse (possession of obscene materials).

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.