"Going to Feed Shrimp" Foreign Worker Found Dead in Sinan, Jeonnam

30s Indonesian Found Submerged in Water Tank
Accident Presumed Due to Misstep... Police Investigating

A man in his 30s from Indonesia, who was working at a shrimp farm in Sinan-gun, Jeollanam-do, was found dead after drowning.

According to the Jeonnam Fire Headquarters on the 27th, a report was received that a man in his 30s from Indonesia, Mr. A, went missing at around 5:41 PM the previous day at a shrimp farm in Dochomyeon, Sinan-gun, Jeonnam.
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According to the Jeonnam Fire Headquarters on the 27th, a report was received that a man in his 30s from Indonesia, identified as Mr. A, went missing at around 5:41 PM the previous day at a shrimp farm in Dochomyeon, Sinan-gun, Jeollanam-do.

Firefighters and police who responded to the report found Mr. A submerged in a shrimp breeding tank with a maximum depth of about 3.5 meters inside the farm at around 6:51 PM, 1 hour and 10 minutes after the report was received, and rescued him.

Mr. A was transported to a hospital but was pronounced dead. Mr. A, known to be an employee of the farm, was reported to have told the farm owner just before the accident that he was going out to feed the shrimp.

The police are investigating the exact cause of death, believing that Mr. A had an accident after slipping while working alone at the time.

Number of Foreign Worker Deaths Reaches 121 Annually

A cage aquaculture farm in Wando-gun, Jeollanam-do. This photo is not directly related to the article content. [Image source=Yonhap News]

The Employment Permit System, which allows small and medium-sized enterprises that cannot find domestic workers to legally employ non-professional foreign workers by obtaining employment permits from the government, was implemented in August 2004. Currently, foreign workers from 16 countries are engaged in manufacturing, construction, service, fisheries, and agriculture and livestock industries in South Korea.

Foreign workers under the Employment Permit System are all engaged in 3D jobs (Difficult, Dirty, Dangerous) that young Koreans avoid, and their numbers have been steadily increasing each year (52,000 in 2021, 69,000 in 2022, 110,000 in 2023).

In the past three years (2020?2022), there have been 363 industrial accident deaths among foreign workers, averaging 121 deaths annually, with 63% of these occurring at workplaces with fewer than 30 employees.

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