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woman who called for someone to carry heavy loads through the errand app was almost raped.
As it turned out, the person introduced by the company was a convict of a sex crime, but the court admitted the responsibility of the errand broker and ruled that alimony should be given to the victim.
Reporter Kim Sang-min on the report.
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In the summer of 2018, A, a woman in her 40s, used an errand brokerage app to find someone to move heavy furniture for her.
However, the helper who arrived home tried to rape it.
Thanks to the apartment security guard who just visited the house, I barely passed the crisis.
[Mr. A/victim: (due to shock at the time) it was difficult to get into this room for a while.
I couldn't get outside at all.
I couldn't go to the hospital even though I was sick...
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man caught by the police was an ex-convict who committed two sex crimes with an electronic anklet.
The man was sentenced to seven years in prison, and the victim filed a lawsuit for damages against an errand broker.
The court ruled that the brokerage company should pay 10 million won for alimony.
The company advertised on the app and social media that all helpers had been verified for safety and had no safety concerns, but the identification process was only about collecting ID photos and contact information, so there was no procedure to objectively verify the criminal history.
However, the company expressed its intention to appeal that the advertisement saying that the helper's identity was verified could not mean that it had even collected criminal history, and that it was not authorized to do so.
(Video coverage: used, video editing: Kim Jong-tae)