Deliberately damaging Hyundai Motor Company and reporting false information…

An employee of a partner company, who has accumulated results by deliberately damaging the vehicle while inspecting the Genesis vehicle, a luxury line of Hyundai Motor Company, was arrested in court. When this employee lost his job due to the fact of intentional damage, it was revealed that he even made a false report on Hyundai Motor Company on the YouTube channel.

On the 20th, judge Kim Gyeong-rok, exclusively 10 criminals of the Ulsan District Law, sentenced A in his 40s to an employee of a Hyundai Motor Company partner, who was accused of obstructing business, sentenced to a sentence of 1 year in prison and held in court.

Mr. A was dispatched to Hyundai Motor’s Ulsan plant in May last year to check the quality of the GV80 steering wheel parts. Mr. A reported to the management several times the problem of wrinkles on the door trim leather that was not related to his job. When the report came in, the supplier of the door trim checked the condition of the leather, and found that it had scratches or dents rather than wrinkles. In particular, it was confirmed that such a mark occurred only on the day Mr. A worked.

In the end, in July of the same year, Hyundai Motor Company discovered at the site that Mr. A deliberately damaged the leather of the door trim while checking the quality of parts. Hyundai Motor Company notified this to the partner company, and the partner company restricted A’s access to Hyundai Motor Company and did not renew the employment contract with Mr.

Mr. A, who lost his job while trying to accumulate results, contacted’Autopost’, a YouTube channel specializing in automobiles, falsely saying, “I was a person who inspected all parts related to the new car at the Ulsan plant of Hyundai Motors. Reported.

In fact, as a false report by Mr. A, the YouTube channel also produced and broadcast content that accuses of poor quality and internal irrationality.

The judge said, “Mr. A has repeatedly reported damage to parts in order to improve performance, and even after being caught, he did not reflect on and even gave false reports to lower the vehicle brand value.” He revealed the reason for the sentence, saying, “There is almost no way to recover the damage quickly.

Mr. A was also prosecuted and sentenced on the charges of driving without a license and drinking.

Hyundai Motor Company has also filed a civil lawsuit against AutoPost, which produced and exported false reports of Mr. A as contents. The YouTube channel has mainly produced videos by receiving reports of breakdowns or defects of Hyundai and Kia Motors. In particular, in November of last year, the Cheong Wa Dae public petition site posted a post saying, “I ask for a sincere apology from Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Jeong Eui-seon and the government.”

A representative of Hyundai Motor Company said, “We will continue to respond strongly to contents that may confuse customers with unconfirmed information. We will listen to various voices of customers and make communication our top priority.”

Reporter Dayoung Kim [email protected]