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Dongtan shop cites price-marking mistake as intimidation case reaches prosecutors

The retailer denies deliberate deception and says its knife-related language was figurative; police are still investigating the paddle sale.

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0:00The report recaps the paddle sale and refund dispute.
1:00Successive visits document removal of the Alpha sign after the franchise agreement ended.
1:52Recorded phone remarks underpin the intimidation complaint; the father subsequently requested police protection.
5:53Police referred the intimidation complaint to prosecutors, recommending indictment; the sale remains under separate investigation.
6:55The shop denies deliberate deception and says its threatening-sounding language was figurative, not an intention to cause harm.

A stationery shop at the center of a South Korean pricing dispute says it mistook a "7.0" marking on table tennis paddles for their selling price. But the investigation now extends beyond the transaction: police have referred an intimidation complaint to prosecutors with a recommendation to indict, South Korea's YTN news channel reports.

Reporter Han Dong-oh's follow-up separates two unresolved matters. One concerns the sale of two paddles for 140,000 won and repeated refusals to refund the purchase. The other concerns a subsequent phone call to the customer's father. The referral is not a conviction, and the separate investigation into possible fraud or unlawful gain remains open.

According to the report, the paddles were worth 25,000 won each. In its written response, the shop says the transaction resulted from a mistake in interpreting the marking, denies intentional deception and says it will explain the circumstances to investigators.

The report plays excerpts from a September phone call in which a male shop operator uses knife-related language and says he will pursue the father, either personally or through someone else. YTN reports that the father had been considering withdrawing his complaint after an apology, but requested police protection following the later call and installed a camera at his home's entrance.

The shop's statement disputes that the language expressed an intention to cause actual harm. It describes the remarks as figurative expressions of the family's distress and sense of injustice. It also says the online spread of the dispute has damaged the business and reserves the right to consider separate civil or criminal action.

Han includes recordings from his own visit, during which the operators reject accusations of excessive profit and describe themselves as having suffered harm. The report also documents the end of the shop's franchise agreement with stationery chain Alpha: its sign was still up during an October visit but had been removed by November 3.

The follow-up drew about 1.4 million views since yesterday. Its substantive update is the different status of the two investigations: the intimidation complaint has moved to prosecutors, while police continue examining the sale.

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