“”At the National Assembly’s Climate, Energy, Environment and Labor Committee’s audit of institutions under the Ministry of Employment and Labor held on the 27th, Progressive Party lawmaker Jeong Hye-kyung expressed condolences over the deaths of workers at the Zinc Factory, Coupang, and London Bagel Museum, and urged the government to take responsibility.
At the National Assembly audit held at the National Assembly this morning, Rep. Jeong said, “I mourn the young worker who died from overwork while working 80 hours a week just 14 months after joining the London Bagel Museum,” and “I mourn the death of a zinc manufacturing worker in Gyeongju last weekend.” Rep. Jeong then said, “As a member of the National Assembly, I will do my best to eradicate the taking of workers’ lives due to corporations’ pursuit of profit,” and added, “There has been another fatal accident in Coupang following Chuseok.”
An official from Rep. Jeong Hye-kyung’s office said on this day that they had requested related data from the Central Regional Employment and Labor Office of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, which has jurisdiction over the Incheon branch of the London Bagel Museum, where suspicions of death from overwork arose. As suspicions arose about young people dying from overwork at the London Bagel Museum, a large bakery brand, claims were raised that labor supervision is needed.
When the Justice Party and the Progressive Party issued a statement, they wrote it down and started publicizing it.
Because it has now appeared in the main media. How will the remaining political parties react?
Personally, I wish they would call the National Assembly and do some digging.
I wish the government and other political parties would reveal something and punish it regardless. I feel sorry every time I see it.