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As you can see, the former family members did not receive industrial accident compensation. Since last year, even the self-employed single self-employed can subscribe to industrial accident insurance, but the actual coverage rate is very low at 0.38%, perhaps because it is not well known.



Reporter Choi Seon-gil continued to meet with one-man business owners.



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is a steelworks alley in Mullae-dong, Seoul.



There are many people who run their own businesses, so let's hear how much they know about the single-person self-employed workers' compensation insurance.



Choong-gyu Lee, who runs the ironworks alone in the footsteps of his father.



I seriously injured my finger, but I didn't even think about industrial accident insurance.



[Chung-gyu Lee / Self-employed person: I had nerve suture surgery and was hospitalized, so I was treated with personal insurance at that time.]



Sang-Jun Kim, a self-employed person in his 8th year, said that he also knew for the first time that he could join industrial accident insurance.



[Kim Sang-jun / self-employed person: I heard it for the first time today. I've never heard of it.] A



single business owner has no one to do the work for them, so taking a day off due to an injury is a huge loss.



That's why industrial accident insurance is so essential.



[Sang-Jun Kim / Self-Employed Person: Compensation for losses in proportion to our sales, but I have not heard of such a thing. The truth is.] As



of last year, there were 4.15 million self-employed individuals who were in the blind spot of occupational safety while working like a worker.



Since last year, the system has been changed so that all of them can join industrial accident insurance.



However, the membership rate is only 0.38% because it is not compulsory, so you have to apply directly, and there is not enough publicity.



[Kim Yong-jun / Attorney: There are a lot of people who know that they can't even sign up. But these people have a lot if you are passing get filled at all compensation indemnity after death or disaster actively in the labor welfare corporation or government (PR ...)



transfer rights in practice, 1 operators work like laborers, like Mr. Case In this case, it may be an alternative to make sure that the contractor is covered by the workers' compensation insurance they have purchased.



(Video coverage: Choi Dae-woong, video editing: Lee So-young)  



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