Actor Jung Joon-ho's 'Major Shareholder Company' Delays Wages for Three Months... "Received Insults When Demanding Back Pay"

Number of Victim Group Members Exceeds 100
Jung Junho Resigned from Internal Director Position at the End of June

Actor Jung Joon-ho. [Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyun-joo] Actor Jung Joon-ho, who is a major shareholder of a company, is facing allegations of employee wage arrears.

According to a JTBC report on the 17th, employees and sales managers of Company A, located in Gangnam, Seoul, claimed they have not received up to three months' worth of wages. One employee of the company complained that after demanding the overdue salary, they were even verbally abused by a former executive.

The company develops an application (app) that helps self-employed business owners with sales settlements, and it is known that 260,000 self-employed users use this app.

The unpaid wages for employees and managers reportedly range from several hundred thousand won to tens of millions of won. The number of members in the online cafe where the victims have gathered has already exceeded 100.

Actor Jung is known to have once owned more than 30% of the shares, making him one of the major shareholders of the company. He was also previously registered as an inside director, and according to the victims' group, his title was 'Chairman.'

However, just before the wage arrears issue surfaced, Jung reportedly resigned from his position as an inside director at the end of June.

The victims' group told JTBC, "One of the founders, Mr. Kim, and the son of the company’s CEO, Mr. Kim, drove expensive imported cars," and added, "When protesting the wage arrears, we were verbally abused by a former company executive."

Meanwhile, the company explained, "The CEO's vehicle has been disposed of, and we are supplementing operating expenses by even taking out personal loans."

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