An angry SK Telecom customer who drove a Mercedes Benz through the company¡¯s front door in April used the luxury car for a protest again. The 47-year-old man staged a fresh three-hour protest against the poor quality of his Samsung-made cell phone by parking the Benz in front of the headquarters of Samsung Electronics in Taepyoung-ro, Seoul on Monday. The long-suffering vehicle is registered to a friend.
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A man who drove a Mercedes Benz into the head office of SK Telecom in protest against the poor quality of his cell phone in April stages a protest in front of the headquarters of Samsung Electronics, the phone¡¯s maker, on Monday, atop the battered car. /Newsis
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From 10:30 a.m., the man, identified as Kim, protested standing or sitting on the Benz with its headlamps still broken from the April stunt. Unscathed, the model is worth W200 million (US$1=W938). Kim said SK Telecom, as the company he bought the phone from, should take the first responsibility, followed by Samsung Electronics. He claims an SK Telecom distributor sold a broken Samsung cell phone to him in Incheon in March. Repeated calls to the telecom firm produced no results, he says.
Kim pledged to instigate a class action suit against Qualcomm, the owner of the original semiconductor technology, with other consumers who fell victim to faulty cell phones. Kim ended his protest at 1:10 p.m., saying Samsung lawyers agreed to discuss the issue with him. He says he is a chaplain working for a hospital in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. But the hospital denied the claim, saying he is not its chaplain although he visits the hospital sometimes. Kim was sentenced to two years on probation for causing W200 million damage to SK Telecom by smashing the Benz into the company¡¯s head office.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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