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I told you about the late Hong Jeong-woon, who drowned in the sea while doing field training at a yacht company in Yeosu, and the police applied for an arrest warrant for the company's CEO. If you look at the statistics, the number of industrial accidents that occurred during field training of vocational high school students reached 50 in the last 5 years.



Reporter Ha Jeong-yeon reports.



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This is a standard contract for field practice signed by Hong Jeong-woon, who died while removing barnacles from the bottom of the yacht.



Numerous violations were discovered as a result of supervision by the Ministry of Employment and Labor to such an extent that the content of the right to be protected from industrial accidents during field training is empty.



It was confirmed that he had Hong, who does not have a diving license, do the diving work and did not check the diving equipment such as the pressure regulator.



Basic safety rules, such as two-person work and the placement of supervisors, were not followed.



The Yeosu Coast Guard has applied for an arrest warrant for the company's CEO on charges of manslaughter and negligence.



The National Human Rights Commission also issued a statement.



"Even though the government announces countermeasures one after another, various accidents do not stop," he said.



Over the past five years, there have been 50 industrial accidents that occurred during field training by vocational high school students.



[Kim Joo-seop / Senior Research Fellow, Korea Labor Research Institute: We need to increase the number of labor counselors or field inspections, and the government should make some investment. If the on-site training is carried out only according to the contract... .]



[Lee Sang-hyun, Labor Attorney/Chairman of Specialized High School Rights Association: I think that it is difficult for the Ministry of Education or schools to take full responsibility.

The Ministry of Labor actively establishes countermeasures and prepares specific business plans on how to guide and supervise them, and...

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Strict management supervision and punishment are necessary to ensure that young students are not sacrificed because of adults who only view students who have been trained as cheap labor.



(Video coverage: Choi Dae-woong, video editing: Lee Seung-jin, source: Kang Eun-mi, Justice Party member's office)