1ºRadio Program in South Korea - 'Today in Sinjangsig'
Broadcast on August 1, 2023 - because it's okay here.
Dongho Kim. Joined Costco full-time in 2019, working in the Hanam store. Twenty-nine years old.
Changed job from cashier to cart manager in outdoor parking lot in early June. Moved 200 carts per hour to the store entrance. Logged 43,712 steps and traveled 26.42 km on June 17; 36,658 steps and traveled 22.01 km on June 18; 29,107 steps and traveled 17.36 km by 7 p.m. on June 19.
At 7 p.m. on June 19, the second day in a row of heat advisories, he collapsed and died in an outdoor parking lot. The cause of death was "pulmonary embolism induced by excessive dehydration from the heat. In other words, the heat killed him.
"You have a disease, you have a disease, you hid it and joined the company, didn't you?"
These are the words of Costco Korea CEO Cho Min-soo. He said them at the funeral home of Mr. Kim Dong-ho.
Kim Dong-ho's medical examination just before he was assigned to the parking lot showed no problems. Nevertheless, the company still suspects that he hid his illness and has not apologized or expressed regret. The company also refuses to cooperate with the bereaved family's request for CCTV footage to apply for workers' compensation.
The manga "Awl" depicts workers at a hypermarket run by a French company forming a union and seeking their rights. Go Goo-shin, director of the Labor Counseling Center, said.
"Do you know why the French company, a country of revolution, refuses to unionize, because it's okay here."
"Respect for human beings comes from fear."
A country where it's not a crime for a worker to die,
there is no respect for workers.
Korea, a country where there is no reason to care or fear.
Is this a country that can still do that?
It was 'Today in Sinjangsig'.