Baekho, President of Seoul Metro, and So Young-cheol, Seoul City Council Member, Joint Safety Inspection of Daehung Station E/L Installation Construction

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Baekho, President of Seoul Metro (right), and So Young-cheol, Seoul City Council Member

On the 22nd, So Young-cheol, a member of the Seoul Metropolitan Council's Transportation Committee (People Power Party·Mapo 2), and Baek Ho, president of Seoul Metro, visited the elevator installation construction site to secure one station hall and one line at Daehyeong Station on Line 6 and conducted on-site safety inspections.

The elevator installation construction at Daehyeong Station connects the ground floor (near Exit 3 of Daehyeong Station) and the underground 2nd floor concourse. The construction has been underway since May last year, aiming for operation by the end of this year.

This site inspection is part of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's "Korea Safety Transformation Intensive Safety Inspection" (April 22 to June 21, 2024), and the construction site for the elevator installation at Daehyeong Station was selected as an intensive safety inspection location.

The elevator installation at Daehyeong Station involves excavating and connecting approximately 19 meters from the ground to the underground 2nd floor concourse to install the elevator. Steel plates have been installed on the road, making it a site with a high risk of serious accidents.

The Korea Safety Transformation Intensive Safety Inspection is a safety management activity aimed at creating a safe daily life by conducting intensive inspections on vulnerable facilities prone to disasters and safety accidents, identifying risk factors in advance. A total of 31 vulnerable sites across various sectors have been selected for inspection.

This site inspection focused on the safety of external steel plates, temporary earth retaining structures, and cutoff walls. External civil engineering experts also participated to enhance the effectiveness of the inspection.

So Young-cheol and President Baek thoroughly examined the construction site themselves, confirming the severity of safety risk factors and strengthening their safety responsibility roles.

So Young-cheol said, "Once the elevator connecting the ground level and the underground concourse at Daehyeong Station is installed, not only transportation-vulnerable residents in our area but also many passengers using Daehyeong Station will be able to move more conveniently within the subway system. I appreciate the hard work of the construction personnel who have been working day and night to install the elevator."

President Baek said, "This inspection provided an opportunity to objectively check the safety management status by having civil engineering experts review the construction site from an external perspective. We will make further efforts to ensure thorough safety management by actively reflecting expert opinions at Daehyeong Station and other construction sites."

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