[Exclusive – Suspicion of Runbemu’s death from overwork] Twenty-six young man dies after working overtime, 80 hours a week

A young man in his 20s died at the London Bagel Museum (Lunbemu), a famous bakery with high sales, after suffering from extremely long working hours of close to 80 hours a week. The bereaved family applied for industrial accident compensation, but the company denied the suspicion of death from overwork and did not provide proof of working hours.

The day before his death, he skipped meals and worked hard for 15 hours.

Working hours in the week before death were 37% higher than the average for the previous 12 weeks.

The late Jeong Hyo-won (26), manager of Runbemu’s Incheon branch, was found in cardiac arrest at the company’s lodgings on July 16. Co-workers who lived with him found him and called 119, and an ambulance arrived 9 minutes after the report, but he had passed away.

It had been 14 months since the deceased joined the company. Based on the schedule and KakaoTalk conversation history, the deceased worked 80 hours in the week before his death. A new Incheon branch opened on July 12, four days before his death, and he worked an average of 13 hours a day and was mobilized even on days off. He suffered from chronic overwork, as it was confirmed that he worked an average of 58 hours a week from 2 to 12 weeks before his death. The deceased handled an amount of work that was difficult to handle alone, such as doing paperwork at home after work or working at a cafe even on days off. If these hours are included, actual working hours are likely to increase further.

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