"Shinhan Card Fined 5 Million Won in First Trial for Gender Ratio-Based Unfair Hiring"

Failing Higher-Scoring Women to Pass Men

In the Shinhan Card new employee recruitment process, the corporation and the vice president of Shinhan Card were fined in the first trial for discriminating against male and female applicants, such as rejecting female applicants with higher scores and accepting male applicants.

On the morning of the 10th, Judge Yoo Dong-gyun of the Seoul Central District Court Criminal Division 24 sentenced Shinhan Card corporation and former HR team leader Vice President A, who were indicted for violating the Gender Equality Employment Act, to fines of 5 million won each. The court stated, "Women were discriminated against simply because there were fewer men at the employee level or below, and some female applicants who received good scores were eliminated in the document screening stage."

It added, "'The claim that the related work was more suitable for men' is based on gender stereotypes and is not a legitimate reason," and said, "During the recruitment process, it was possible to inform applicants in advance about the possibility of night and holiday work or consider alternatives that provide a better environment for them."

Earlier, Vice President A was brought to trial on charges of rejecting 92 women who had scores equal to or higher than men in the document screening of the '2018 New Employee Open Recruitment' in October 2017 and accepting the same number of men. It was revealed that Shinhan Card predetermined the male-to-female document pass ratio as 7 to 3 and accepted 257 men (68%) and 124 women (32%).

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