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Park Hyun-jung, president and CEO of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, is under fire over allegations that she sexually harassed employees, verbally assaulted them and abused her power in hiring and promotion decisions.

Insiders of the Seoul-government funded orchestra say Park tried to touch a male employee’s genital area in October last year by pulling him by his necktie at a public dinner gathering after drinking an excessive amount of alcohol.

“From the look of you, I think you will do well as a (bar) hostess,” she was also quoted as saying to a female employee during a meeting.

A petition filed against her reveals that Park told two other female employees at the meeting that they should serve important guests by sitting next to them and doing the duty of bar girls.

“As you act like a cute girl a lot, I’m planning to send you to senile old folks,” Park once told to an employee in charge of event planning while discussing a fundraising plan.

Park did not hesitate to curse her employees and tell them that they have a slave mentality.

“If the company suffers a loss, the loss will be covered by making deductions from your paychecks,” she told an employee whose position had recently been altered.

“If you guys cannot pay it off, what can you do beside selling your organs. If you do not want to harm your body, you’d better get the job done properly.”

The petition also claims that Park repeatedly abused her power in hiring and promoting certain individuals, such as her friends’ children and her former student who joined the orchestra without public competition.

Of 27 staff members, 13 have left the orchestra since Park was inaugurated as the CEO of the city-funded organization in February 2013. Some of the remaining employees are known to be suffering from mental illnesses.