[제보는 MBC] Suspicious sunflower pot in the bathroom of the flower shop. The culprit is the boss

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What you are seeing now is a sunflower pot placed in the bathroom of a flower shop in Incheon.

It looks strange to see it placed right next to the toilet, but it turns out that this flowerpot was used as a tool for the crime.

Reporter Yoo Seo-young covered what happened.

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A flower shop in Bupyeong-gu, Incheon.

Earlier this month, a female florist felt strange while using the bathroom.

The shape of the sunflower pot placed next to the toilet looked unnatural.

Someone raised the flower pot by holding a tissue wick underneath, and there was a reason it looked odd.

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“There is a toilet paper wick in a sunflower pot. But that sunflower is an artificial flower (artificial flower). It’s an artificial flower, so you don’t have to look at the sun by the window, but the toilet paper wick on the floor is not one, but two layers…”

With an ominous feeling, I immediately opened the pot and found a black camera cleverly covered with leaves.

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“At first, there was nothing on the flower, so I wasn’t suspicious, but when I looked at the bottom of the pot, I saw that the camera was set up like this…”

The police, who were dispatched after receiving a report from an employee, arrested the owner of the flower shop, a man named Jeong, in his 40s, on the spot for illegal filming.

As a result of the search and seizure, it was confirmed that Jung’s camera illegally filmed four female employees of the flower shop for two months.

Jeong even recaptured some of the videos with his mobile phone, and had about 500 in the form of photos.

The pot in question was first placed around November of last year.

Employees who thought the boss was good were shocked.

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“The boss put a stove in the bathroom to warm up, and he even brought sunflower pots with great care…”

The two months of illegal filming was meticulous.

Jeong adjusted the flowerpot from time to time to change the position, angle, and height of the camera, and even switched to a high-performance camera once.

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“(The day before the discovery) the flower pot was very close to the side of the stove. And there wasn’t even this (toilet paper wick) underneath.”

It wasn’t just the employees who were affected.

Even her 6-year-old daughter, who visited her mother during working hours, went to the bathroom and became a victim of illegal filming, and her mother had to make a proxy statement at the police.

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“(In the illegal filming), the child’s face came out straight ahead. At that time, my heart was broken more than when I saw mine.”

However, the police have been investigating Jung without detention, saying that he has no previous criminal record, and there is no possibility of running away and no fear of destroying evidence.

Mr. Jeong’s side sent text messages to the victims saying, “I have nothing to say even if I have ten mouths,” and “I will live with regret and reflection for the rest of my life.”

However, victims who have been interacting with Mr. Chung for a long time beyond simple employment relationships are afraid of trauma as well as the possibility of retaliation.

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“I keep having nightmares. I can never use the bathroom when I go outside, and because of that, I have fear and restraint from outside activities…”

This is Yoo Seo-young from MBC News.

Video coverage: Lee Jun-ha, Han Jae-hoon / Video editing: Kwon Na-yeon

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