CAPITALISM KILLS!!

Last Monday (1.07) 40 construction workers were killed and at least 17 injured during a devastating  fire in a warehouse owned by the logistics company "Korea 2000" in Icheon, an industrial city south of Seoul (Gyeonggi-do/province).

The fire was caused, according the daily newspaper Chosun Ilbo (1.09), by the lack of security precautions. An investigator assumed that the workers were forced to work in a "in a room filled with volatile gases."

 
So it seems that - once again - workers in S.K. were sacrificed for the capitalists' efforts to minimize (necessary) expenditures, particularly for the safety of their employees/workers - just to maximize the profit.

And today - 'only'(!!) three days after the Icheon Fire Inferno - the S.K. (bourgeois) media realized and reported about the fact that at least 13 of the killed people were migrant workers, mainly from China...

 

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