Ah, Doosan Group, you magnificent bastards. Back for round two, eh? If you skipped Part One – that blistering takedown of their embezzlement binges, worker thrashings, and a baseball outfit more juiced than a dodgy pharmacy – do yourself a favour an d catch up. It’s a proper gut-punch on corporate sleaze. As loyal Cummins punters – those beefy engines grinding away in Doosan’s excavators and loaders – they’re still front and centre in our “Customer Corner” rogues’ gallery. We’re talking a chaebol that treats decency like yesterday’s kimchi, and this instalment’s piling on: eco-disasters, family swindles, boardroom bollockings, bailout bollocks, charity cons, and bid-rigging bastards. It’s gritty, it’s grim, and it’s got me frothing like a phenol-fouled pint. Let’s wade into this muck.

The 1991 Phenol Fiasco: Poisoning a Nation’s Thirst

Flash back to 1991: South Korea’s economic boom is in full throttle, and Doosan’s electronics plant in Gumi fancies itself an eco-assassin. Over months, they dump 30 tonnes of raw phenol – the sort of toxin that’d curdle your blood – right into the Nakdong River. Result? Taegu’s drinking water becomes a noxious brew, millions heaving their lunches, taps reeking like Satan’s socks, and a bird sanctuary turned into a winged wasteland.

Doosan’s comeback? A limp clean-up and finger-pointing. Fifteen execs get pinched, the chairman legs it like a scalded cat, and boycotts batter their beer, Coke ops, and KFC spots. It even shoved the government into green overdrive – ministry makeover, pollution taxes, life bids for earth-rapers. But Doosan? Plant back humming in a fortnight, smirking all the way. As Cummins chums, you’d reckon they’d swerve crapping where their engines plough. Some would dub this Korea’s Minamata nightmare: brutal, bleak, and bloody needless. Raging? Bloody well should be.

2012: Park Jung-won’s Dodgy Loan Lark

Leap to 2012, and the Park dynasty – Doosan’s regal rotters – are at it again. Park Jung-won, offspring of ex-boss Park Yong-oh, fresh from a 2010 stock fiddle rap, gets nabbed for pinching 50 million won (about £30,000 then) from an online shop sod. Pledges a loan on a ritzy Seoul gaff in Hannam-dong, but shock – it’s not his pad. Drags out repayment with excuses flimsier than wet bog roll, ducks plod questions twice, bleating about “chats”.

Pure chaebol cheek: nick big, repay zilch, bunker behind the family fort. Coppers poked about, but wrap-up? Murkier than a Seoul fog. This isn’t solo scamming; it’s the pus from Doosan’s core. Darkly daft how these posh prats play fraud like polo. For Doosan, Cummins’ mate, crafting solid gear while yanking fast ones? Laughable hypocrisy.

2015: Chairman Park Yong-man’s Tantrum Tirade

2015 dawns, and Doosan Heavy’s chairman Park Yong-man (yet another Park pillock) erupts. In a board scrap, he rails at staff blocking share buyback tweaks: flings filth, swears to sack the bunch, spits slurs that’d singe your lugs. It leaks, and wham – fury over chaebol sweatshop savagery.

Aftermath? Park chucks his thrones at Doosan Heavy and two offshoots. No nick, no fines, just media moans as a “blunder”. But it strips bare the monster: clan tyrants mincing workers like meat. Sarcastic golf clap for awareness – at least it prodded staff safeguards. For a Cummins customer hawking hefty kit, this suits’ supernova is a twisted chuckle.

2020: Coal Bailout Blues – Greenwashing a Black Heart

2020: Plague pandemonium, Doosan Heavy wallowing in red (nod to Part One’s debt dirge). Gov tosses a 1 trillion won lifeline (roughly £600 million). Noble? Bollocks – greens like Greenpeace sue, howling it bankrolls Doosan’s coal belchers overseas, like Indonesia’s smog-spewers, while the planet pivots green.

Slams rain on chaebol coddling: no eco-leashes, just loot for fossils. Bailout bulldozes ahead, demos drag on. Hilariously two-faced – Doosan, ’91 toxin tossers, now taxpayer-teated polluters. As Cummins hearts thump in their coal-crunchers, this is outrage nirvana. Sustainable mateship? Pull the other one.

2025: W Korea’s Phony Philanthropy Farce

Straight from October 2025: Doosan Magazine’s W Korea gloss pumps up donations for its “Love Your W” breast cancer crusade. Brags 1.1 billion won (£600,000-odd) to the Korea Breast Cancer Foundation across 20 years; fact? Barely 315 million won. Bashes suck sponsor dosh for promo fluff, not fixes – one do claims 50 million raked, doles 5 million.

Stinger: Editor Lee Hye-joo doubles on the foundation board. Dodgy dovetail? MPs bay for audits, old gaffer Park Yong-man (that git) swans events clueless. Charity as chaebol cloak – shady, slimy, sarcasm-drenched. Doosan, Cummins’ customer, driving progress while nicking from the needy? Apex arseholery.

2025: Doosan Bobcat’s Bid-Rigging Bonanza

November 2025 drops more: Plod fingers 16 suspects, including a Doosan Bobcat Korea insider, for rigging bids on 10 billion won (£5.5 million) worth of build gear deals. Plot to hike prices, knee rivals – textbook cartel cock-up.

Probe’s rolling, but prosecutor referrals stink of slam-dunk. This branch bollocks tops Doosan’s corrupt sundae. Gallows guffaw: machines with Cummins guts, deals with bent mitts. Steaming yet? We’re boiling.

Doosan Group: Cummins customers supreme, chaebol villains deluxe. From river rot to rigged romps, their saga’s a septic slurry of scandals. Watch this space – Part Three’s brewing if they keep cocking up. Meanwhile, grill your suppliers, lads.

Lee Thompson – Founder, The Cummins Accountability Project

Customer Corner : Doosan Group – South Korea’s Even Uglier Secrets (Part Two)