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The KTX accident that occurred on the 8th (Sunday) was that it started with an abnormality in the line switching system, which is a device to change the direction of the train. As a result of our coverage, the line connecting the device and the warning signal was wrong from the initial design stage It's confirmed. The investigating authorities believe there is a possibility of a wrong design in the other Kangnung KTX section. Today's 8 o'clock news will focus on KTX accident cause and improvement measures.

First, it is the contents that the reporter Cho Jae-geun reported separately.

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Yesterday afternoon, Oh Yeong-sik, President of KORAIL, Kim Jong-ryeong, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Land, and the director of Kim Sang-gyun Railroad Facilities Corporation,

As a result, we have confirmed that the line connecting the line switch and the warning signal is connected upside down.

This device will leave a record when someone opens it, and it was opened yesterday after last year's installation.

KORAIL insisted that the connection was established with the connection reversed from the beginning.

The Airline Railway Accident Investigation Board has confirmed the line drawings at the accident site and it was confirmed that SBS had been delivered from the design stage with the line being reversed already.

The investigation team urgently sent a "safety improvement recommendation" to KORAIL and the railway facility, saying that the design might have been wrong on other sections of KTX in Kangreung.

The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs Special Judicial Police also went into a special incident on this accident.

The railroad police officers have already conducted face-to-face interviews with officials from KORAIL and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and are likely to engage in full-scale investigations based on their identification and punishment.

(Image coverage: Huh Chun, Image editing: Woo Ki Jung)

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