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you get injured while working in a special employment job, the subject of industrial accident insurance has been expanded to include five fields, such as home appliance installation technicians and visiting teachers. However, the proportion of those who did not apply for industrial accident insurance is rather high.

Reporter Deok-hyun Kim covered the reason.

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SK Magic water purifier installation engineer Seo Hyun passed a brain hemorrhage during work in June of last year and was awarded the first grade of disability.

It could be because of more work than my colleagues, so I wanted to judge if it was an industrial accident, but I didn't even have a chance.

This is because Mr. Seo's job was not covered by industrial accident insurance.

[Seo Jeong-ran / Seo-hyun's sister: (Company officials) told me not to file an application for not being able to handle industrial accidents. I shouldn't have tried it. Each worker is not a worker. Only those answers.] From

the 1st of the past, industrial accident insurance was applied to five special employment types such as home appliance installation technicians such as Seo and visiting teachers.

The number of subjects increased by 270,000.

However, there are many special-employment workers who claim not to be covered by industrial accident insurance through so-called'exclusion'.

Of the 490,000 of the existing nine special employment workers, 84% of workers refused to participate in industrial accident insurance.

The problem is that there are not many cases where you refuse to join regardless of your intention.

More than 40% of respondents said that the company applied for exclusion from the company's recommendation or coercion or without their knowledge.

[Kim Jong-jin/Deputy Director of the Korea Labor and Social Research Institute: If the company implicitly or joins (industrial accident insurance), it may be disadvantaged or not re-contracted… .] The

rest are presumed to be paying half the premium with the company or reluctant to expose their income, but it is difficult to understand the exact situation.

In addition to expanding the scope of insurance coverage, at the same time, raising the insurance coverage rate will save the purpose of the industrial accident insurance system to protect workers.

(Video coverage: used, video editing: Seunghee Lee, VJ: Jaemin Roh)