Original article in Korean is at this link.

Four in 10 office workers say they have experienced sexual harassment, a survey has found.

Jobs portal site Career surveyd 405 office workers, finding that 40.5% had experienced sexual harassment at work. 72.6% of women had versus 27.4% of men.

The perpetrators were mainly superiors (78.7%), followed by owners (13.4%), and co-workers (7.9%).

44.5% of the incidents occurred at office dinner parties, followed by work hours (31.7%), drinking outside of office parties (15.9%), and during workshops or other office events (7.9%).

The forms of harassment included excessive touching (59.8%), sexual jokes (45.7%), comments on physical appearance (33.5%), excessive staring (24.4%), making demands (7.9%), and demands for sex (5.5%).

The responses made included just putting up with it (78%), quitting the job (12.8%), demanding an apology (5.5%), notifying the union (2.4%), and doing the same thing back (1.3%).

Just 17.8% said their offices had policies in place to deal with sexual harassment.

To combat sexual harassment at work, 47.4% said that the top priority should be for workplaces to have prevention policies, while 35.3% chose harsher punishments, 11.4% chose a better system of reporting and advice, and 5.7% chose punishing owners of firms.