"These Days No Virgins" "If You Don't Live in Gangnam, You're a Dog"... Verbal Abuse by High-Ranking Coast Guard Official, Demoted

A senior officer of the Coast Guard suspected of making sexually harassing remarks and abusive language, such as saying "There are no virgins these days," to subordinates has been demoted.
[Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Hwang Sumi] A senior officer of the Korea Coast Guard has been demoted over allegations of making sexually harassing remarks and abusive language, including telling subordinates that "there are no virgins these days."

According to the Korea Coast Guard on the 28th, Inspector General A, who was investigated by the Blue House Anti-Corruption Secretary's Office, recently received a disciplinary demotion. If this disciplinary action is finalized, Inspector General A will be demoted one rank to Chief Superintendent. However, Inspector General A may file an appeal against the disciplinary action.

Inspector General A is suspected of making several inappropriate remarks to subordinates during a meeting in March.

At that time, while discussing security issues, he reportedly made sexually harassing comments such as "Women suffer sexual violence like comfort women during wartime," and "There are no virgins these days. I know women's underwear well."

He is also said to have made regional disparaging remarks, referring to residents of the Seoul Gangnam area, including himself, as 'tigers,' and residents of other regions as 'dogs.'

In relation to this, when Inspector General A was investigated by the Blue House in April, the Korea Coast Guard separately launched its own internal investigation. At that time, the Korea Coast Guard judged that Inspector General A was not suitable to perform his duties as a head of the headquarters and placed him on standby, later suspending him from his position.

A Korea Coast Guard official explained to Yonhap News, "Inspector General A is a senior public official, so the disciplinary action was taken by an external agency."

Inspector General A, who was appointed through a special recruitment for judicial examination passers, was commissioned as a Superintendent in 2006 and has served as a frontline Coast Guard station chief, among other roles.

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