A person in their 50s who went to the Ministry of Employment and Labor inside the Government Sejong Complex, sprinkled a flammable substance, and tried to set a fire was caught by police.
According to the Sejong Southern Police Station on the 25th, police arrested a person identified only as A at about 6:25 p.m. that day on the sixth floor of the Ministry of Employment and Labor at the Government Sejong Complex on charges of obstructing the execution of official duties with special means, after A broke in carrying a flammable substance and tried to ignite it.
A sprayed a flammable substance and tried to light it, but it was reported that an actual fire did not occur thanks to Ministry of Employment and Labor building employees stopping the attempt. There were no casualties.
A visited the Ministry of Employment and Labor that day out of dissatisfaction that a civil petition related to recognition of an industrial accident, which had been filed for years, had not been processed, according to a police investigation.
It was found that A entered the building by carrying a bag containing a plastic bottle filled with a flammable substance and jumping over a glass door installed at the Ministry of Employment and Labor complex.
A then went straight up to the sixth floor without being stopped and caused a disturbance, shouting, "Have the Minister of the Ministry of Employment and Labor come out."
A police official said, "We are determining the exact circumstances, including why A attempted arson and the route of entry, by questioning A and officials of the Ministry of Employment and Labor."