As soon as President Lee Jae-myung returned from vacation, he instructed, "From now on, all industrial accident fatalities should be reported directly to the President as quickly as possible."

President Lee Jae-myung speaks at the Cabinet meeting held at the Presidential Office in Yongsan, Seoul, on the 29th of last month. /Courtesy of the Presidential Office

Spokesperson Kang Yu-jung explained during a briefing on the 9th that President Lee issued such an instruction regarding the incident where a worker in his 50s fell to his death while dismantling safety nets at a construction site for new apartments in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province the previous day.

Spokesperson Kang said, "The Ministry of Employment and Labor has also been instructed to report the preventive and follow-up measures to prevent industrial accidents, as well as the details of actions taken so far, at the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday."

He continued, "While maintaining the reporting system for industrial accidents through the National Situation Room, we are to establish a system that reports to the President more quickly."

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