Yoon Suk-yeol: "Enforce the Serious Accident Punishment Act Rationally, but Consider Amendments if Investment Becomes Difficult"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Naju-seok, Changwon=Reporter Park Joon-yi] Yoon Seok-yeol, the presidential candidate of the People Power Party, expressed on the 14th that regarding the Serious Accidents Punishment Act, while preventing industrial accidents, the enforcement decree and related regulations will be refined to ensure that investment enthusiasm does not decline, and if there are difficulties in investment, amendments will also be considered. He promised to review deregulation to allow cultural facilities to be established near small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to alleviate manpower shortages in SMEs.

Candidate Yoon held a meeting with businesspeople at Bongam Industrial Complex in Changwon, Gyeongsangnam-do. When a businessperson requested deregulation of the Serious Accidents Punishment Act, Yoon said, "(The Serious Accidents Punishment Act) was created because there were so many serious industrial accidents," adding, "It focuses on prevention, and we will refine the related enforcement decrees and such to ensure rational enforcement so that businesspeople do not lose motivation. Even so, in the actual criminal enforcement process, rational considerations are made extensively. If under these circumstances investment in our country becomes difficult, we will listen to public and industrial opinions and consider amendments."

He continued, "First, through the related enforcement decrees and the practical operation of criminal enforcement, we will thoroughly prevent serious accidents but carefully consider measures so that investment enthusiasm does not decline."

Regarding the issue of young people avoiding employment in SMEs, Yoon mentioned the Youth Leap Account, where if young people save money in regular deposits, the government matches the amount, saying, "Not only to boost youth morale simply, but also to utilize it as part of SME policy, we will broaden the direction and revise the policy."

Additionally, Yoon said, "Young people now value not only wages and income but also cultural life. If there are no cultural facilities near the workplace, they find it difficult. We will ease institutional conditions to allow such facilities to be established so that young people can enter foundational industries, hone their skills, develop themselves, and contribute to the development of companies and industries through regulatory reform."

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