Friday, June 5, 2009

Choi Jin-sil sued for being beaten by her husband.

Here's some justice system fail, from the Korea Herald via Korea Pop Wars:
Models who failed to maintain appropriate dignity as representatives of the products they represent should compensate for the damages caused to their advertiser, the top court ruled.

The Supreme Court reversed the original ruling and ruled in favor of a construction company that filed a suit against the deceased actress Choi Jin-sil, who committed suicide last October.

The company, upon hiring the top actress as their representing model in March 2004, concluded a contract stating Choi's duties to pay back 500 million won ($399,361), should she depreciate the company's social reputation.

However, in August, Choi appeared on television and newspapers with her face full of bruises, allegedly caused by the violence of her then husband and retired baseball player Cho Sung-min.

Choi and Cho, who had been living apart since 2002, divorced soon after the incident.

The advertiser company thus filed a suit against the actress, requesting for 3 billion won as compensation. The amount included the 500 million won in damages as stated in the contract, additional compensation of 400 million won and 210 million won in advertising costs spent by the company.

"The purpose of the brand model contract is to use the model's social reputation and images to draw the customers' interest," said the Supreme Court in the ruling. "The model's failure to maintain an adequate image constitutes a breach of the hiring contract."

Jesus Tapdancing Christ.

6 comments:

This Is Me Posting said...

The more I learn about Korea, the more disgusted with it I become.

Unknown said...

The other disgusting thing about this case is that the lower court only granted in her favor because "she had not been proven guilty of causing her former husband's violence."

That's big of them...

Unknown said...

Makes me think it's time to leave.

Roboseyo said...

abortion of justice.

Lolimahro said...

After reading the article, I was left wondering if it was just for being beaten that she was sued. I wonder if her divorce is considered to have contributed to her "failure to maintain image" or whateverthecrap.

Darth Babaganoosh said...

As another poster said over at The Marmot: "Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop hating humanity".