By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC - Guardian UK - Honduras - ESPN
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Feb 15 – Hyanhuy Nam worked as a chauffeur for South Korea's Mission to the UN, driving a Minister back and forth to 14 Homestead Road in Tenafly, New Jersey - and to run the Ministers' family members' "personal errands including providing free transportation services to his family members."
He was not paid overtime or "spread of hours" and so he sued.
The case was assigned to U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Alison J. Nathan, since nominated for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Inner City Press is covering the South Korean UN Mission case, as well as other cases before Judge Nathan including US v. Ghislaine Maxwell.
The Nam complaint alleges that his job for the Minister included "driving him and his female companions to a discrete rondeau at her apartment" at 867 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11211." There are other allegations in the complaint, against other South Korean diplomats, which Inner City Press will continue to cover.
The defendants have sought to stay discovery, but on December 27 Judge Nathan denied the request, specifying that if the South Korean Mission or officials "believe Plaintiff's discovery requests exceed the scope of Rule 26 or the parties' protective order entered November 5, 20221, then Defendants may, after meeting and conferring with Plaintiff, file an objection."
A focus seems to be erasing the names of some defendants from the caption. The parties have agreed to take out the names of Hyun Cho, Jinho Jo and Daeyoung Chung." But the Mission to the UN is still being sued.
The case is now Nam v. Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations, 21-cv-6165 (Nathan)
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