A worker at the National Gwacheon Science Museum under the Ministry of Science and ICT was found to be barred from employment due to a sex crime record and was dismissed.

The ministry's "2026 inspection and verification results on employment of people with sex crime records" dated Oct. 29 showed that a museum worker was found on Sept. 2 to be subject to an employment ban and was dismissed on Oct. 1.

The ministry said the case was not one in which a sex crime record check was omitted during hiring or in which there were problems in the verification process.

The ministry said the employee, identified as A, is a public-sector contract worker. It said nothing unusual was found in the check conducted at the time of hiring, but a new sex crime record occurred after hiring and the employee was found to be subject to an employment ban during a police check.

The Act on the Protection of Children and Youth Against Sexual Offenses restricts people who have received an employment ban order for sex crimes from working at, or in effect providing labor to, institutions related to children and youth for a certain period.

Under Article 57 of the law, the ministry carried out inspections from June to September this year of 1,871 workers at 15 national science museums nationwide. It found no cases at the other 14 institutions besides the National Gwacheon Science Museum.