Broadcaster Park Na-rae has denied allegations of illegal medical practice, but circumstances supporting those allegations have been revealed, fueling controversy.
On the 6th, Dispatch reported conversations Park Na-rae had with the 'injection aunt' and published photos of injections being administered in a regular home without professional medical facilities.
According to the Medical Service Act, receiving payment to perform procedures in a place that is not a medical institution constitutes operating an unlicensed medical institution, and those who perform or seek to receive telemedicine must have the facilities and equipment prescribed by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. However, Dispatch released related photos claiming Park Na-rae received injections in an officetel in Ilsan that lacked medical equipment.
Furthermore, according to the released messages, the "injection aunt" said, "I'm collecting prescriptions now to prepare a lot," a remark that raises suspicion of proxy prescriptions. In particular, the medication Park Na-rae received from the "injection aunt" was an antidepressant that reportedly requires a doctor's prescription. However, the person known as the "injection aunt" is not even a doctor. Nevertheless, Park Na-rae reportedly took the "injection aunt" overseas, and it was noted that this coincided with the time of MBC's I Live Alone filming in Taiwan, drawing attention.
Earlier, Park Na-rae was embroiled in allegations from former managers of abuse of power, assault, illegal medical practices, and even embezzlement related to operating an unregistered one-person agency. They claimed Park Na-rae ordered them to run personal errands, forced them to attend drinking parties, verbally abused them, and inflicted injuries. They also alleged unpaid hosting fees and proxy prescriptions, filed an application for property attachment against Park Na-rae, and warned of a lawsuit claiming damages of 100 million won.
After that, allegations arose that Park Na-rae operated a one-person agency without completing the registration procedures for popular culture and arts planning business, and she was also reported on suspicion of registering a former boyfriend as an official employee falsely and paying a total of about 44 million won in the name of salary, causing shock. It was also reported that she transferred about 300 million won from a company account to help secure the former boyfriend's jeonse deposit.
As these allegations poured in, Park Na-rae's agency, E&Pi Co., Ltd., said that two employees who worked with Park Na-rae for about 1 year and 3 months recently left the company, and the company paid their severance pay properly. However, after receiving their severance pay, the employees additionally demanded an amount equivalent to 10% of the company's previous year's sales, they said, adding that the employees kept adding new claims over time and continued to pressure Park Na-rae and the company, with the demanded amounts gradually increasing to several hundred million won, describing themselves as victims of extortion.
They added that the company and Park Na-rae recognize operational shortcomings and have no intention of avoiding responsibility for mistakes. However, they decided they could no longer be dragged by unilateral demands amid continued unnecessary misunderstandings and pressure caused by claims that differ from the facts. Accordingly, after legal review, they decided to take necessary legal action. Some allegations raised by certain media outlets will be clarified through future legal procedures, they said, and they sued the former managers on charges including extortion.
They also dismissed the embezzlement allegations as "blatant falsehoods," arguing that the complaints that contain absurd claims are being used to pressure Park Na-rae.
Meanwhile, regarding the 'illegal medical practice' allegations, Lee & Ko lawyer Lee Se-jung, legal representative of Park Na-rae, told the press that after comprehensively reviewing related materials, the parties' statements, conversations and text messages, there is nothing legally problematic about Park Na-rae's medical treatment. He said Park Na-rae, due to a busy shooting schedule that made hospital visits difficult, requested a house call from the doctor and nurse at the hospital she normally attends and only received an IV drip, which is a legitimate medical service widely used by ordinary patients. Amid this, additional circumstances that overturn the law firm's claims have been detected, drawing attention to how Park Na-rae will respond going forward.
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