Unqualified person serves ``fugu cuisine''...Customer ``dies'' in emergency room = South Korea

In South Korea, a female shop owner in her 50s who caused the death of a customer by cooking and serving puffer fish even though she had no qualifications to cook the puffer fish was sentenced to prison in an appeals court.
On the 7th, the Gwangju District Court ruled, ``Suspect A was indicted on charges of causing death or injury due to professional negligence and violating the Food Sanitation Act, and was sentenced in the first trial to 10 months in prison, suspended for two years.
(A 57-year-old woman) was sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for two years." Suspect A went to Chullanam-do (Jollanam-do) around 12:00 noon on June 18, 2020.
At a restaurant in Hainan, he cooked five puffer fish and served them to two customers in their 50s, despite not having any qualifications. One person died and the other was left paralyzed.
Suspect A cooked the puffer fish without completely removing the poison called tetrodotoxin, and served it to customers. I was taken to the hospital after eating this.
Guest B died in the emergency room, while Guest C, who was showing symptoms of paralysis, was treated for five days. Suspect A did not have a chef who was qualified to cook puffer fish in his cafeteria, and instead of using the puffer fish he had purchased in advance.
cooked. The appellate court said, ``The defendant's professional negligence caused serious consequences such as the victims being poisoned by blowfish poison and one person died, and the defendant bears heavy responsibility.''
If the person did not want to be punished, and the appellate court reached an agreement with the deceased victim's bereaved family members, and if we make a comprehensive judgment that the bereaved families do not want punishment, then the first instance's sentence is somewhat harsh and unjust.'' explained.