“Because women don’t go back…” Dong-A Pharmaceutical’s’King of Menstruation’ was taken at the end of the interview.

In the YouTube entertainment program’Nego King 2′, which was unveiled on the 5th, the presenter’King Nego’, Jang Young-ran, visited Choi Ho-jin, CEO of Dong-A Pharmaceutical, and negotiated a discount for the company’s products. [달라스튜디오 유튜브 캡처]

Recently, Dong-A Pharmaceutical, which attracted attention through a YouTube video of discount sales for women’s products, apologized for the controversy over discriminating against female applicants in the recruitment process.

In the YouTube entertainment program’Nego King 2′, which was released on the 5th, the host Young-ran Jang visited Dong-A Pharmaceutical and negotiated a discount for the company’s sanitary napkin products. Jang Young-ran was depicted as’King Nego’ and Choi Ho-jin, CEO of Dong-A Pharmaceutical, was depicted as’The Great King of Sanitation. The video became popular with more than 1.22 million views in a day.

However, in the video comment, a netizen posted a post stating that he was discriminated against in the process of hiring Dong-A Pharmaceutical last year, followed by similar reviews, leading to controversy about gender discrimination in hiring. Netizen reactions such as “Women don’t want to vote, but want to sell women’s products?”, “Interview content is shocking. I will boycott in the future” and “I hate women”.

In fact, on the corporate information sharing site, there is a review saying that Dong-A Pharmaceutical asked female applicants,’How do you think that women receive less salary than men because they did not go to the military?”Do you intend to go to the military?’

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Dong-A Pharmaceutical said, “It was confirmed that one of the interviewers asked a question outside the interview manual to the applicant during the first practical interview process for hiring new employees last year.” Revealed.

He added, “We will reinforce the disciplinary action for the interviewer and internal education for the interviewer to prevent this from recurring in the future.”

Reporter Go Seok-hyun [email protected]