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  2. Hwaseong battery factory fire - Wikipedia

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    He said that the workers died of smoke inhalation instead of burn injuries. The fire started on the second floor and spread to the workers' location where they likely took one to two breaths before succumbing to the toxic battery smoke within 15 seconds. [1] Due to the intensity of the fire, it was difficult to immediately identify the dead. [1]

  3. South Korean rescuers search burned factory after a blaze ...

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    HYUNG-JIN KIM. June 24, 2024 at 7:39 PM. SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Rescue workers were combing through the charred ruins of a factory building near South Korea's capital to find any more fire ...

  4. Blaze in South Korea battery plant kills 22 workers - AOL

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    HWASEONG, South Korea (Reuters) -Multiple powerful explosions set a lithium battery factory on fire in South Korea on Monday, killing 22 workers, most of them Chinese nationals, as it burned out ...

  5. Working hours in South Korea - Wikipedia

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    Statistics show that in 2019 “workers aged between 30 to 39 years old worked 158.9 hours per month on average in South Korea. In 2020, a new policy was introduced in South Korea that limited the weekly working hours to 52 hours per week” (Yoon 2020). [9] Statistics also show the steady decline of monthly work hours for each of the age ...

  6. A fire at a lithium battery factory in South Korea ... - AOL

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    A fire likely sparked by exploding lithium batteries swept through a manufacturing factory near South Korea’s capital on Monday, killing 22 mostly Chinese migrant workers and injuring eight ...

  7. Nike sweatshops - Wikipedia

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    Team Sweat is "an international coalition of consumers, investors, and workers committed to ending the injustices in Nike’s sweatshops around the world" founded in 2000 by Jim Keady. While Keady was researching Nike at St. John’s University, the school signed a $3.5 million deal with Nike, forcing all athletes and coaches to endorse Nike.

  8. Women factory workers in South Korea - Wikipedia

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    Women factory workers in South Korea. Women Factory Workers in South Korea In the late 1920s, it was the time when women entered the manufacturing industries and factories. [1] In Korea, we call factory women workers as Yo Gong (여공) which letters came from a Chinese character ( 女工). Specifically, "y o" means (女 female) and "gong ...

  9. Exploding batteries spark deadly S Korea factory fire - AOL

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    June 24, 2024 at 7:26 AM. A massive factory fire that began after several lithium batteries exploded has killed at least 22 people in South Korea. The blaze broke out on Monday morning at the ...