Team leader in 40s assaults his subordinates in 50s at an LG Chem factory = Korea

At LG Chem's Daesang factory in Seosan, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea, a team leader in his 40s assaulted his subordinates in his 50s.

LG Chem has stated that it will "examine thoroughly and take measures based on the results."

On March 17th, in the anonymous online community of working people, Mr. A, a team leader in his 40s who belongs to the safety and health team of LG Chem Oyama Factory, argued with Mr. B, a professional technical manager in his 50s. A video and a photo of attacking Chief B twice were posted.

It is said that the beginning of the incident was that Chief B, who was scheduled to arrIVEs to work at 2:00 pm on March 16th, arrived to work 30 minutes earlier at the direction of Team A, and Chief B requested the section chief to give additional compensation of that amount.

Since it has not been customary to approve the allowance for early arrive to work, the section chief reported the request of chief B to the chief of the part, and the chief of the part approved the allowance as requested by the chief of B.

However, Team A, who thought that Chief B had ignored himself, called Chief B this evening and ranted, "Are you making a fool of me?", And Team A in his early 40s. As the chief uttered abusive words, the chief in his 50s also uttered abusive words.

Team A was even more excited and asked, "Where are you?", And Chief B answered, "I'm on duty." And hit the abdomen. Chief B reportedly reported to the police.

When this was known, the company took measures to "dismiss the position" of Team A on 17th.