Daily Union (Monthly, Korea News Newspaper) Ju-un Journalist | Hwang Jae-bok, CEO of SPC summoned to the Public Investigation Department 3 of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office on December 13, 2023.

This is because representative Hwang was summoned as a suspect in the case of unfair labor practices by Paris Baguette, a member of the PB Partners, a subsidiary of SPC Group.

CEO Hwang is known to have served as the CEO of PB Partners.

Currently, prosecutors are investigating allegations that executives and employees of SPC Group PB Partners, which manages confectionery and baking personnel at Paris Baguette franchises, committed unfair labor practices between March and June 2021 by forcing, pressing, urging, and penalizing bakers at the Paris Baguette branch of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions.

The circumstantial evidence that Hwang Jae-bok, CEO of SPC Group, bribed was reportedly revealed while the prosecution was investigating SPC Group PB Partners' alleged "forced, pressured, and forced to withdraw from the union of Paris Baguette bakers."

In response, the Office of the Human Rights Protection Officer of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office raided the office of CEO Hwang of SPC Group's headquarters on charges of bribery on December 11, 2023.

Prosecutors reported that the prosecution was reported that the SPC Group's office and secured the investigation of SPC Group's office and secured the internal meeting data and investigation hall data.

The prosecution was investigating suspicions of unfair labor activities of SPC Group PB Partners.