“How can South Korea’s law be this weak? Twenty-three people died!”
Those were the words of Chinese mother Li Shun-ji after South Korea’s Supreme Court upheld a reduced four-year prison sentence for Aricell CEO Park Soon-kwan over a 2024 factory fire that killed 23 workers, including Li’s then 24-year-old daughter, Yan Jing-jing.
The blaze at the lithium battery manufacturer’s factory in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi province, killed 17 Chinese nationals, one Laotian national and five South Koreans,…
Source: www.scmp.com
