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government even came up with measures to prevent overwork due to the successive deaths of courier drivers. A contractor worker who worked at the Coupang Distribution Center a few days ago died.
The bereaved family claimed to have died of overwork after working more than 80 hours a week.
Reporter Jeong Ban-seok reported.
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On the afternoon of the 10th, 50-year-old Coupang contractor worker Choi Mo, who was working on conveyor belt maintenance at the Coupang Distribution Center in Icheon, Gyeonggi-do, fell down.
Choi died after being transferred to the hospital, and the autopsy doctor gave verbal findings of death following a myocardial infarction.
The bereaved family said they had no chronic illness and raised the possibility of overwork.
Choi recorded his working hours every day on his mobile phone, and he worked from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. the next day, and some states wrote that he worked 81 hours.
[Mr. Choi's brother-in-law: I eat and sleep every time.
No, I've only been thinking about it, is it difficult, but I was able to (work) so much that 81 hours a week came out.] It was far
beyond the chronic overwork standard of 60 hours per week.
The company avoided responding to reports asking the truth of the survivors' overwork claims.
[Company official: I have nothing to say.]
[Mr. Choi's wife: First of all, I should apologize.
(You've never heard an apple…) No.]
Coupang said, "The deceased did a job irrelevant to the delivery volume, and he collapsed in an empty lot in front of the distribution center during a break."
It means that Mr. Choi worked under the work order of a contractor, not Coupang, but an investigation will be conducted to determine who is instructing the work and whether measures to prevent industrial accidents have been properly followed.