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Today (3rd) Prime Minister Jung Se-gyun and Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Kim Hyun-mi went to Icheon to meet family members. The average number of people who die from accidents at work in Korea is 6 per day, or 2,000 per year. If you make a law to keep these people safe every time, you may be able to stop them from harassing companies, but this time it seems to be different.

This is Han Se-hyun.

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Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Kim Hyun-mi, who visited the site of the Icheon fire, apologized for the failure to comply with the regulations on safety accidents.


[Hyunmi Kim / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport: Policies are not working properly in the field, regret and reflection, dismay… There are such things.]

"It is time to follow the principle that 'People are more important than money'," he promised to supplement the system.

Just as the late Kim Yong-gyun, who worked at a thermal power plant two years ago, was sacrificed, the so-called Industrial Safety and Health Act, called the “Kim Yong-gyun Act,” was revised.

[Hyunmi Kim / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport: Since this accident triggered the thought that the problem of construction safety could not be delayed, this special opportunity was created to protect the safety of construction sites… .]

After removing the safety-related regulations scattered in the existing individual laws, a plan is proposed to collect them into separate laws that oversee procedures and responsibilities related to safety accidents.

Through this, we will provide effective alternatives, such as supervising on-site management, strengthening customer responsibilities, and additionally deploying safety personnel.

Prime Minister Jeong Se-gyun, who visited the incense burner earlier this morning, also promised to "reorganize the law and the system", saying, "Let's no longer be a slave to money," along with the identification and punishment of the chief executive officer.


The government announced that when the 21st National Assembly opened, it would pass the provisional 'Special Act on Construction Safety' to lower the death toll of about 400 people last year to half the level within two years.

(Video coverage: Jung Sung-hwa, Choi Woong-woong, Video editing: Ha Sung-won)