”I don't want to arrive to work” - Social service worker used sick leave 30 times after falsifying medical certificates (South Korea)

In South Korea, a social service worker in his 20s was sentenced to prison for falsifying medical certificates and taking sick leave dozens of times in order to avoid arriving at work.
According to the legal community on the 6th, Seoul Eastern District Court Criminal 11 Exclusive was charged with falsifying a private document and falsifying a private document on the 21st of last month.
The court sentenced a man in his 20s, Mr. A, who was accused of using the documents, to six months in prison, suspended for two years. He also ordered him to perform 200 hours of community service.
Mr. A has used up all his sick leave and is unable to arrive at work due to the date on his medical certificate.
He forged the medical certificate and submitted it to the district office. On October 30, 2022, at his home in Songpa-gu, Seoul, he scanned the medical certificate issued on January 24, 2022 and
The diagnosis date and issue date were changed. After that, Mr. A sent this document along with the absence reason to the social service worker's management officer via email.
In this way, Mr. A falsified medical certificates and took sick leave a total of 30 times between October 2022 and November last year.
During the trial, Mr. A claimed that he had simply created a medical certificate file by scanning, but had not printed it, and therefore the document was not output, so it was not a forgery.
However, the court ruled that if Mr. A sent the medical certificate and the absence reason file, the person in charge would print them out, stamp them with his/her seal, and store them.
Regarding the reason for the sentence, Judge Seo said, "I took into consideration various factors, including the fact that the defendant admitted to his mistake and that he had no prior history of being punished, and
"We agreed," he said.