"Can't Clean Up Paper Cups with Body Fluids Anymore"…Legal Office Female Employee Dismissal Fallout

Repeated Discovery of Paper Cups, Feeling Shame While Cleaning
Lawyer Investigated by Police on Charges of 'Creating Anxiety'

It has come to light that a lawyer at a law office made a female employee in her 30s clean up a paper cup containing his bodily fluids, sparking controversy. The related details were reported on the JTBC program 'Sageon Banjang' aired on the 10th. A, who was responsible for office assistance and cleaning at the law office, received a complaint from a janitor saying, "Do not throw 'paper cups with this kind of content' into the restroom."

It has been revealed that a lawyer at a law firm made a female employee in her 30s clean up a paper cup containing his bodily fluids, sparking controversy. The related details were reported on the JTBC program "Sageon Banjang" aired on the 10th.
[Photo by JTBC "Sageon Banjang"]

Thinking it was due to recycling rules, A removed the tissue from the paper cup and was shocked. It contained a man's bodily fluids. From early last year until the day she resigned, A found the 'bodily fluid paper cup' a total of 11 times. The paper cups were mainly placed on the lawyer's office desk. A protested to the general manager in charge. In response, the general manager committed secondary harm by saying things like, "If you have no work, you should at least be able to clean that up," and "Middle-aged women go crazy over the smell of XX."

A protested against these remarks. However, what she received in return was a 'notice of dismissal.' A stated, "The dismissal notice was unfair in response to my protest about the bodily fluid paper cups." On the other hand, the general manager claimed it was a resignation measure according to the law office's circumstances, saying, "(A) abused power by not properly performing the tasks assigned."

Regarding the bodily fluid paper cups, the general manager stated, "Since the lawyer also put tissue in the paper cup, it was not sexually motivated," and "It was done after work, so I think it is somewhat problematic to deliberately find and make an issue out of it." He also denied, saying, "I never made any remarks about the XX smell." Ultimately, A reported this matter to the police. The lawyer affiliated with the office admitted to the police, "It is true that I did it and that the bodily fluid is mine." Currently, the lawyer involved in the case has been booked on charges of causing anxiety.