Attorney Jeong Cheol-seung, lawyer for Park Won-soon's family, summoned by prosecution for allegations of sexually harassing a junior colleague

Attorney Jeong Cheol-seung, who is accused of sexually harassing a junior lawyer, was summoned by the prosecution and is under investigation.

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According to the legal community on the 14th, the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office's Women's and Children's Crime Investigation Division 2 (Chief Prosecutor Kim Bong-jun) summoned Attorney Jeong in the afternoon as a suspect and is currently investigating him.

Attorney Jeong is accused of sexually harassing junior lawyer A at a wine bar in Seocho-gu, Seoul, on March 27 of this year.

A filed a complaint with the police in April, alleging that Attorney Jeong poked her chest and touched her hands, among other acts of sexual harassment. Attorney Jeong counter-sued A for false accusation and defamation under the Information and Communications Network Act. The police sent Attorney Jeong to the prosecution last month without detention on charges including forced sexual assault causing injury.

Previously, in 2021, Attorney Jeong was accused by a woman of forced sexual assault and quasi-rape but was cleared by the police.

Attorney Jeong represented Kang Nan-hee, the widow of the late former Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon, in a lawsuit seeking to cancel the National Human Rights Commission's ex officio investigation result that acknowledged sexual harassment by a subordinate of the late mayor.

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