South Korean workers fed up with bullying are being increasingly emboldened by a new tougher labor law to secretly record alleged abuse or harassment by their bosses, boosting sales of high-tech audio and video devices.
Gadgets disguised as leather belts, eyeglasses, pens and USB sticks are all proving popular with employees in a country where abusive behavior by people in power is so pervasive that there is a word for it — "gabjil."
Several incidents have made international headlines, most notoriously the 2014 Korean Air "nut rage" case in which the airline's vice president, Heather Cho, assaulted a crew member over the way she was served macadamia nuts in first class.
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