A resident in their 50s who repeatedly hurled abusive language and curses at the staff of the management office of the apartment where the person lives and made dozens of phone calls to disrupt their work has been sentenced to prison.
According to legal sources on the 28th, the Busan District Court Criminal Single Judge (Judge Ji Hyeon-gyeong) sentenced a person surnamed A, who was indicted on a charge of obstruction of business, to eight months in prison. The court strictly weighed that the defendant did not reflect during the repeat-offender period and repeatedly committed the crime while intoxicated.
A, a resident living in an apartment in Busanjin District, Busan, made an issue of illegal parking and the like and made a total of 26 calls to the management office over about 11 hours from about 5:55 a.m. to about 4:48 p.m. on Sept. 2025.
A spewed curses at employees including the accounting clerk, saying things like "If you show your face, I'll kill you," and forced them to connect to the chair of the residents' representative council. Around 4 p.m. the same day, A, intoxicated, went to the management office, caused a disturbance by cursing "the chair is a bastard," and threatened management chief D by pointing a finger despite attempts to stop it.
About 40 minutes later, A moved to the security office and picked another fight. When D was looking for an item in a drawer, A nitpicked, saying "Why are you rummaging through the drawer," and when D asked A to leave and stepped outside, A followed to the end, continuing to jab a finger. Even though police officers who arrived at the scene advised A to go home, A continued to riot for about 10 minutes, saying "I will kill D."
The court noted, "The defendant committed this crime while intoxicated during a repeat-offender period for a different type of crime, and the degree of obstruction of business is not light," and said, "There was no settlement with the victim, and even before this case there were multiple prior 112 calls for assault and insult against neighbors at the residence or management office staff," and convicted the defendant.
A had been sentenced to two years and six months in prison for fraud and other charges in 2021, served time, and as of Nov. 2023 had passed the parole period.