The government is examining safety related precautionary measures against social overhead capital (SOC) and energy public corporations as safety accidents continue at public institution management facilities such as the Korea Railroad Corporation.

The government plans to reflect safety and environmental factors throughout the entire organization when conducting management evaluations of public institutions' performance this year next year.

In addition, we will implement measures to prevent the disadvantages of the safety-related investments of public institutions by excluding them from calculating the debt ratio at the time of management evaluation.

Economy minister Hong Nam-ki will preside at the first day of the afternoon (Oct 15) and discuss ways to strengthen public institution safety management.

In accordance with the policy of regularization of irregular workers in the public sector, we will speed up the regularization of safety-related dispatch and service personnel.

KORAIL has hired 1,466 employees directly from October, including maintenance of life and safety, maintenance of railway cars, electricity, and screen doors.