Tag: Ulsan

Notice how there has been no criticism of President Lee in the media or politicians for this accident unlike former President Park when the Sewol ferry sunk?:

President Lee Jae Myung on Sunday pledged to determine whether there were safety lapses at a thermal plant site in the southeastern city of Ulsan where seven workers were killed and sternly punish those found accountable.

Lee made the remark after authorities on Friday recovered the last of the seven workers who were trapped when a 63-meter tower at the plant collapsed on Nov. 6. The bodies of the six others had been recovered. 

“As the person ultimately in charge of public safety, I am genuinely and deeply sorry,” Lee wrote on Facebook. “Despite the people’s wishes, all seven trapped workers returned to their families as bodies. My heart is deeply torn.”

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Here is the latest from the deadly tower collapse in Ulsan:

The body of another worker was recovered Tuesday night after search operations resumed for those trapped under a collapsed boiler tower at a thermal power plant in the southeastern city of Ulsan, raising the death toll to four. 

Firefighters found the body of a man in his 60s around 10:14 p.m. in the debris of Tower 5, about 6 1/2 hours after two adjacent towers were demolished to clear the way for rescue efforts.

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Students majoring in Korean studies at Rice University in Houston tour SK Innovation in the southeastern industrial city of Ulsan in this photo released by the company on June 8, 2018. (Yonhap)

This photo courtesy of the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage (NRICH) shows the footprints of a vertebrate presumed to belong to the Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era, commonly known as the age of dinosaurs about 100 million years ago. The footprints were found on a rock in the southeastern industrial city of Ulsan recently. The NRICH said on June 5, 2018, that 18 such footprints were found in Ulsan on June 1. (Yonhap)

I am always amazed how people keep falling for these scams:

A Malaysian man has been jailed for a year over a fake kidnapping phone scam.

The man, 37, was caught in January after making a phone call to a randomly selected person in Ulsan on Jan. 8. He told the receiver that he had kidnapped his daughter and demanded 27 million won ($25,399) ransom.

The father wired the money but soon realized he had been duped. He reported the incident to police, who caught the suspect days after.

The Malaysian was found to be a member of a domestic voice phishing syndicate. The suspect told police he took 500,000 won from the wired money and shared the rest with his colleagues. Police are looking for other people involved.  [Korea Times]

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Fortunately no one was killed by whatever caused this explosion in Ulsan:

An explosion at a military base in South Korea’s southeastern city Tuesday injured more than 20 soldiers, authorities said.

The blast of unknown cause took place at around 11:50 a.m. at a training camp for reservists in Ulsan, some 410 kilometers southeast of Seoul, according to the authorities.

The injured soldiers, some of whom were burned, were taken to nearby hospitals. No casualties were reported.

No training took place at the time of the incident, according to authorities. All the injured were soldiers on active duty, mostly in their early 20s.  [Yonhap]

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Scenic mountains are an oasis of natural beauty in the heart of Korea’s factory belt The city of Ulsan is skirted… https://t.co/E8fjShj4N4

— Seoul Selection (@SeoulSelection) November 5, 2016