A part-time worker at a convenience store was sued by the store owner for eating instant food on sale for the wrong time, but was acquitted at the end of the trial.
The Seoul Central District Court acquitted Mr. A, in his 40s, who was charged with embezzlement in business.
A, who was working as a part-time student at a convenience store in Gangnam, Seoul, was sued by the owner of the convenience store for intentionally discarding and registering products with remaining sales time.
The convenience store made it possible for part-time workers to eat instant food that had passed the expiration date and was discarded.
The lunch box was disposed of at 7:30 pm and refrigerated food at 11:30 pm, respectively. Mr. A registered the 5,900 won pork feet set to be discarded at night as a discarded product at 7:40 pm and ate it. is that
Mr. A stated that he mistook it for a lunch box.
In fact, it is said that this set of pig's feet was packaged in a plastic container and had a similar shape to a general 'convenience store lunch box'.
The judge acquitted him, saying that there is a circumstance that he misunderstood the disposal time by thinking of the product as a lunch box, saying that rice does not necessarily have to be a lunch box.