A woman in her 20s who told a parking attendant who asked her to turn off her car, "Our dog is more expensive than you," was fined.
According to Yonhap News on the 5th, Kim Se-uk, presiding judge for criminal division 1 at the Changwon District Court, sentenced a woman in her 20s, identified as A, who was indicted on a charge of insult, to a fine of 1.5 million won.
A, in July last year, at an underground parking lot in Gimhae, South Gyeongsang, told B, a female parking attendant in her 70s, "Will you compensate me if the dog dies? Our dog is more expensive than you," and was indicted on a charge of insulting B.
At the time, A was sitting in the car with the engine running, and when B asked to turn it off, A made the remarks in a situation where other parking attendants and customers could hear.
Angered, B pulled A's wrist, and when C, A's boyfriend in his 20s, tried to drive off with A, B blocked the front. B also tugged at C's clothes several times. C likewise pulled B's wrist and pushed B's upper body.
The court said, "A compared a person to a companion dog and severely insulted B by putting a price on the dignity of a human being," and added, "Rather than reflecting on the wrongdoing, A is focused on blaming the other side, raising doubts about whether there is genuine remorse," explaining the reasons for the sentence.
For B, the court imposed a fine of 1.5 million won for initiating the use of physical force, and for C, it imposed a fine of 700,000 won after considering that B blocked the car, which led to the assault.