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South Korea, which elected a brand current president this week, has up to now this year suffered two dramatic fatal collapses that addto the nation’s troubling constructing security chronicle.

Authorities officers in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport utter there were 1,211 constructing deaths and 30,340 injuriefrom 2020 to 2024, fixed with ChosunBiz.

On April 11, a subway tunnel under constructing in Gwangmyeong, south of Seoul, collapsed. One worker grow to be once injured and the body of a missing worker grow to be once learned six days later. 

The crumple damaged and compelled the closing of a couple of shut by buildings. 

That accident additionally brought on South Korean prosecutors to file expenses of occupational negligence in opposition to one genuine from Pohang-basically based mostly thoroughly venture contractor POSCO E&C, a subcontractor and a venture supervision provider, experiences the Yonhap News Company. The company’s CEO said that the company “will come up with thorough measures to prevent a recurrence and further strengthen the on-site safety management system.”

In a assertion to Korean media, the company added, “We express our deepest condolences to the bereaved families and we hope that the rescued person’s health will recover as soon as possible, and we deeply apologize to local residents who are anxious and uncomfortable in this accident.”

In unhurried February, four workers died and six others sustained accidents when a freeway bridge being in-constructed Anseong, additionally south of Seoul, collapsed all over constructing, recordsdata media reported.

The data media cited fireplace and rescue services because the sources of recordsdata about the mishap.

Sections of the freeway bridge, supported by 160-toes-gigantic concrete columns, collapsed one after one other after being hoisted into location by a crane, Reuters reported.

Deputy Editor Richard Korman helps straggle ENR’s enterprise and correct form recordsdata and investigations, selects ENR’s commentary and oversees editorial train material on ENR.com. In 2023 the American Society of Industry Publication Editors awarded Richard the Stephen Barr Award, the preferrred honor for a single feature story or investigation, for his story on the aftermath of a abominable auto atomize in Kentucky in 2019, and in 2015 the American Industry Media awarded him the Timothy White Award for investigations of surety fraud and location of enterprise bullying. A member of Investigative Journalists and Editors, Richard has been a fellow on drone security with the McGraw Center for Industry Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Richard’s freelance writing has looked in the Seattle Instances, the New York Instances, Industry Week and the websites of The Atlantic and Salon.com. He admires constructing initiatives that terminate on time and price range, compensate all team participants slightly and chronicle zero fatalities or serious accidents.