Enacted last year, the Severe Accidents Punishment Act holds the business owners, or chief executive, liable if safety measures are insufficient.
A new fire hazard that leads to a high number of casualties tends to break out in Korea just as people start to forget about the previous one. There was the 2008 warehouseblaze in Icheon, Gyeonggi, which resulted in 40 deaths...
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