South Korea's LG Electronics, whose appliance chief has been indicted on a charge of purposely damaging Samsung washing machines, issued a video clip that it says shows the executive was merely testing its rival's products at a store in Germany.
The video from the incident was released on YouTube days after Jo Seong-jin and two other LG Electronics employees were indicted by South Korean prosecutors, escalating a bitter dispute between the cross-town peers.
In a nearly nine-minute video containing edited footage from surveillance cameras, Jo and other LG employees are seen touring a Samsung exhibit at a shop in Berlin. The officials are seen opening and closing the doors of appliances, with uniformed Samsung retail representatives looking on.
"Samsung workers were looking on right next to us," Jo said. "They would not have stood by had I deliberately damaged a washing machine."
Soon after the incident, LG had agreed to pay for what it called accidental damage to four machines.
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