President Lee Jae Myung on Sunday pledged to find out whether or not there have been security lapses at a thermal plant web site within the southeastern metropolis of Ulsan the place seven employees have been killed and sternly punish these discovered accountable.
Lee made the comment after authorities on Friday recovered the final of the seven employees who have been trapped when a 63-meter tower on the plant collapsed on Nov. 6. The our bodies of the six others had been recovered.
“Because the individual in the end in command of public security, I’m genuinely and deeply sorry,” Lee wrote on Fb. “Regardless of the folks’s needs, all seven trapped employees returned to their households as our bodies. My coronary heart is deeply torn.”
Lee known as the accident one which “mustn’t have occurred” and vowed to forestall comparable accidents.
“I’ll guarantee that a tragedy like this isn’t repeated. We have to put an finish to such a tragedy, the place workplaces develop into a web site of loss of life.”
The president known as for a swift and thorough investigation to find out the precise explanation for the accident and vowed to take stern punitive measures in opposition to these discovered accountable, no matter their positions.
He additionally known as on related ministries to evaluate security circumstances at work websites from scratch and take needed security measures in the course of the winter season.
In a separate put up on X, previously Twitter, Lee wrote that rewarding folks with deserves and punishing these with faults is the fundamental precept of working a company.
Lee’s remarks have been seen as supporting his administration’s push to probe whether or not public officers have been concerned in unlawful actions in reference to final yr’s botched martial regulation bid whereas concurrently searching for measures to encourage civil servants.
On Tuesday, the federal government introduced plans to type such a activity drive and unveiled a collection of measures geared toward supporting lively public administration and revitalizing the civil service group the next day.
