Korean advocate Baek Song-yi is campaigning for workplace harassment survivors’ right to know how their bullies were disciplined. She says her former US employer upheld her complaint but refused to disclose the punishment, citing privacy law. The labour ministry said in July it revised guidelines to recommend sharing investigation outcomes with victims, but not to mandate it.
A member of Gapjil 119 performs in Seoul against workplace gender discrimination and sexual harassment in this 2022 photo. Yonhap
Kept in the dark after reporting her boss for harassment, Korean advocate Baek Song-yi is now campaigning for survivors' right to know how their bullies were disciplined.
Baek, 40, experienced first-hand a troubling paradigm in Korea's workplace harassment response, with victims often expected to keep silent while employers have no clear legal duty to tell them how their cases ended.
At her former company, a US firm with offices overseas, Baek said she was verbally harassed by her boss, an older man.
