SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Authorities continued recovery operations Friday at a railway construction site in the city of Yongin after a heavy drilling rig toppled into a nearby apartment building. The accident occurred at 10:13 p.m. Thursday, when a drilling rig, which is a heavy construction machine used for boring into the ground, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea BIzwire) — The recent collapse at a construction site in Anseong, Gyeonggi Province, resulting in the deaths of two construction workers and the serious injury of four others, is attributed to the utilization of the deck plate method and hasty construction, an umbrella labor union claimed Thursday. “In the same Anseong [...]
YANGYANG, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A large sinkhole opened up at a construction site in the east coast county of Yangyang on Wednesday, causing part of an adjacent building to collapse and forcing 97 people to evacuate, officials said. The 12 meter-by-8 meter sinkhole, which is five meters deep, formed at 6:40 a.m. at [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A kindergarten building in southern Seoul has tilted after a retaining wall at a nearby construction site collapsed, authorities said Friday. No one was injured. The four-story Sangdo Public Kindergarten, located in the southern district of Dongjak, lent at about 10 degrees as the wall designed to prevent subsidence [...]
HOENGSEONG, South Korea, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Hoengseong County, Gangwon Province, has been using hundreds of meters of temporary fencing built around construction sites to promote anti-smoking campaigns. The posters attached to the fencing range from slogans like “quitting smoking, the beginning of love for family,” to more fact-driven information like “quitting smoking can [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – On the morning of June 1, 7:20 a.m., an accident occurred at a metro construction site in Namyang-ju, northern Seoul, killing four on the site according to Yonhap news. The number of injuries has been confirmed as eight and others were transferred to a nearby hospital. Witnesses said there had [...]