To Dong-A Pharmaceutical’s official apology, victim “sends the novel ’82-year-old Kim Ji-young”

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Dong-A Pharm admitted to asking gender discrimination questions at the time of the interview and officially apologized. The victim said, “I will receive an apology,” and “send the novel ’82-year-old Kim Ji-young’ in the sense of reconciliation.”

On the 22nd, Dong-A Pharmaceutical announced the official position in the name of the president, saying, “I apologize for having a question regarding gender discrimination during the hiring interview process in the second half of 2020.”

Dong-A Pharmaceutical said, “This was a question that violated the standards of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Labor and the Ministry of Employment and Labor, saying,’We do not ask or ask questions about topics that are favorable or disadvantageous only for specific genders.’ I express my regret to the young people who would have felt it.”

He added, “Dong-A Pharmaceutical has made efforts to equip various systems and principles related to gender equality, such as operating a human rights committee composed of equal numbers of men and women.” It happened in a part where the director wasn’t thorough,” he said.

Dong-A Pharm said, “With this incident, I realized how important it is not only to have a system, but also to make a good process so that the system is well maintained.”

In response, the victim said, “In fact, I have a lot to say about this apology, but I won’t do it,” through the content platform’Brunch.’

The victim said, “In the sense of reconciliation, I send President Choi Ho-jin to the novel ’82-year-old Kim Ji-young’ by Nam-ju Cho, selected as ‘100 Time Magazine’ on November 16, 2020, the day I was interviewing Dong-A Pharmaceutical.” If you read it all, I hope you lend it to the HR team leader.”

“However, this does not mean that there is only reconciliation between the one who made the wrong and the other who is apologized, but it does not mean immunity from the mistakes of Dong-A Pharmaceutical.” He stressed, “We have to take a clear responsibility for wrongdoing and be punished accordingly.”

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

The victim recently revealed to the YouTube channel’Nego King 2′, in which President Choi appeared, that he was a female applicant who suffered sex discrimination in a recruitment interview for a new employee of Dong-A Pharmaceutical in November last year. “What do you think, do you agree?”

Since then, controversy has spread as Dong-A Pharmaceutical, which sells women’s products, has been criticized for sexual discrimination with questions favorable to men during hiring interviews.

Dong-A Pharm posted an apology in the name of the president in a comment on the post and acknowledged that “one of the interviewers had a question that made the applicant uncomfortable outside our interview manual”, and dismissed the head of the HR team for three months in suspension. .

Reporter Jeong Hye-jeong [email protected]