YouTube channel ‘KwakTube’
As travel creator Wonji saw the 1 million-subscriber mark collapse amid a controversy over employee benefits, the staff benefits at KwakTube (Kwak Jun-bin) are drawing attention.
On the 24th, the YouTube channel ‘KwakTube’ released a video titled "A good company that sends you anywhere in the world by lottery". In the video released that day, Kwak Jun-bin introduced a concept of selecting the travel destinations that employees themselves wrote on their bucket lists by a ‘lottery draw’ and actually going.
Each employee wrote three places they wanted to go. During the process, Kwak Jun-bin said, "Especially Jaban and Eun-ji, you have not traveled much", and Eun-ji replied, "I have been to 20 countries". To that, Kwak Jun-bin joked, "If it is 20, you should retire from travel YouTube", eliciting laughter.
YouTube channel ‘KwakTube’
YouTube channel ‘KwakTube’
YouTube channel ‘KwakTube’
All the listed destinations were put into a lottery machine. Kwak Jun-bin set the rules: "We will go to whichever country is drawn here. We will go with the third ball that comes out". As the machine spun, the employees cheered and watched the result. The first number was 25 (India), the second was 16 (no entry), then 35 came up but again there was no corresponding country, so they drew again. On the fourth attempt, number 11 came up, i.e., Indonesia, which was decided as the final destination.
Meanwhile, on the 20th of last month, Wonji uploaded a video to her YouTube channel ‘A Day of Wonji’, but an unexpected controversy arose. The workspace in the video was a small room of about 6 pyeong on basement level 2 with no windows, where three employees worked together and even handled logistics tasks such as packing parcels. Online, criticism poured in that "employee treatment is poor".
As the controversy grew, Wonji posted multiple apologies on her YouTube channel, but it has not subsided. Before the controversy, the channel ‘A Day of Wonji’ had about 1.02 million subscribers, but it has now fallen to around 970,000.
