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However, the Ministry of Employment and Labor, which is investigating this case, believes that KEPCO has a typical ‘primary contract’ character. In fact, in May 2019, when a subcontractor worker in his 30s fell from a power pole in Inje, Gangwon Province, and died, KEPCO evaded responsibility with the same logic. On the other hand, ‘primary contractors’ who manage the work directly after entrusting them with subcontractors are subject to up to 7 years in prison or a fine of 100 million won.įor this reason, KEPCO claims that they are the ‘ordering party’, not the ‘primary contractor’. It is not ‘outsourced’.”Īccording to the current law, if the ‘ordering party’ entrusts the work and does not participate at all until the completion of the work, there will be no punishment for the death of the worker. “KEPCO is an ‘order’ because of the fact that KEPCO gave work that was not in the business area of KEPCO. Moreover, they claim, “They did not outsource the risks because they are the ‘ordering parties’ who do not manage the work.” However, KEPCO said, “The principle is to work with live trains,” and they made the safety regulations properly, but the subcontractors are in violation. Down’s death, no live train was assigned. “There was no vehicle to send to the site because all the live trains were in use.” KEPCO’s safety regulations require that a ‘live train’ be used to prevent electric shock, but only one photo of the live train was left. “I climbed the work alone and rode a pole… I told him that Daun was very difficult while he was alive, and he said that he was going to get into a lot of trouble.” The rule of ‘work in a team of two’ was rarely followed. Most of the pictures I took during the work were pictures of Mr.
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Down sends a picture of his feet hanging from a rope and standing on a power pole, he replies that his girlfriend looks scared. The late Kim Daun, an employee of a KEPCO subcontractor who died alone on a power pole carrying a 22,000 volt extra-high voltage current.Īs a result of the MBC coverage, it was confirmed by the photos he left that it wasn’t the first time Kim had climbed a power pole and worked on a pole alone.Ĭorrespondent Lim-chan Lim covered the report.Īn SNS chat room between the late Mr.