The Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) said on the 6th that it is conducting a search and seizure with police at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries' Ulsan shipyard. This follows a fire last month on a submarine undergoing maintenance at the Ulsan shipyard that left a subcontracted worker in their 60s dead.
The Ulsan branch of the ministry and the Ulsan Metropolitan Police Agency have deployed about 60 labor inspectors and police officers to carry out search-and-seizure operations at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries' Ulsan headquarters and partner company offices.
The ministry and police were said to be securing computers of those involved in the incident to examine whether safety measures were properly implemented.
On the 9th, a fire broke out on the Navy's 1,800-ton-class submarine Hong Beom-do while it was undergoing maintenance at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries' Ulsan shipyard. In the accident, a female worker in her 60s employed by a partner company died.