POSCO Chairman Jeong-woo Choi, who withdrew the notice of failure to attend the hearing and showed up at the industrial accident hearing, lowered his head again.
In questioning about the causes of POSCO’s subsequent industrial accidents, Chairman Choi cited POSCO’s aging facilities and lack of supervision efforts.
POSCO Chairman Jeong-Woo Choi, who represented POSCO as a witness at a hearing on industrial accidents held at the conference hall of the National Assembly’s Environment and Labor Committee on the 22nd, bowed his head as a sign of apology for many industrial accidents shortly after the interrogation by Rep. Kim Ung.
Rep. Kim Woong, who first interrogated Chairman Choi, mentioned the issue of former Chairman Choi’s low back pain non-attendance.
Rep. Kim Woong said, “In the case of a lumbar sprain or cervical sprain written on the medical certificate that you submitted, it is mainly paid by insurance scammers,” he said.
Rep. Kim repeatedly commented on Chairman Choi’s recent announcement of safety measures, but criticized that, “Despite this desperate announcement, industrial accidents are not decreasing.”
Rep. Kim then asked, “What do you think, when there was no (industrial accident) death in 2017 before the chairman took office?”, but Chairman Choi did not give any other answers.
Immediately after Kim Woong’s interrogation was over, Chairman Choi bowed his head to the effect of saying he apologized for the subsequent industrial accidents.
In addition, Democratic Party lawmaker Yoon Mi-hyang also made the subject of questioning as Chairman Choi.
When asked about the cause of Rep. Yoon’s industrial accident, Chairman Choi replied, “Because there are many old facilities that are over 50 years old in our company, and the efforts to supervise safety management are insufficient.”
In addition, Assemblyman Yoon raised the level of criticism, saying, “Because the chairman is a financial expert, he doesn’t know the site at all, so there are criticisms that only measures that are far from the site are poured out.”
In addition, to the interrogation of Rep. Park Deok-heum and Im Ja-Isa, Chairman Choi Jung-woo gave a principle answer, saying, “We will review and try to reflect it as much as possible.”
