President Lee Won-seok Meets with Minister of Employment Lee Jeong-sik... Discusses Joint Response to Labor Cases

Prosecutor General Lee Won-seok met with Minister of Employment and Labor Lee Jeong-sik on the 9th to express his gratitude for their cooperation and joint response to labor cases so far.

According to the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, Prosecutor General Lee met with Minister Lee at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office building in Seocho-gu, Seoul, on the morning of the same day. Minister Lee's visit was a return visit following Prosecutor General Lee's visit to the Seoul Regional Employment and Labor Office in June.

On the morning of the 9th, Lee Jeong-sik, Minister of Employment and Labor (left), and Lee Won-seok, Prosecutor General, visited the Supreme Prosecutors' Office and shook hands in greeting. Photo by Supreme Prosecutors' Office

As the first sitting Prosecutor General, Lee visited the Gyeonggi branch of the Central Regional Employment and Labor Office on February 27 and the Seoul Regional Employment and Labor Office on June 19, holding meetings with labor inspectors and strengthening cooperation with the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

The Supreme Prosecutors' Office stated, "Prosecutor General Lee expressed deep gratitude for the close cooperation and joint response between the prosecution and the Ministry of Employment and Labor on labor cases directly related to people's livelihoods, such as wage arrears, industrial accidents, and unfair labor practices."

During the meeting, Prosecutor General Lee and Minister Lee exchanged views on ▲ the joint response by the prosecution and the Ministry of Employment and Labor to wage arrears crimes that threaten the livelihoods of workers and their families, efforts to expand compulsory investigations against malicious and habitual wage-delinquent employers, and to increase the formal indictment rate for practical damage recovery; ▲ the establishment of an investigative cooperation system including the operation of a working-level consultative body and the installation of a hotline between the prosecution and labor offices in relation to the enforcement of the Serious Accidents Punishment Act, with 58 cases and 124 people indicted, leading to guilty verdicts in all cases so far; and ▲ active cooperation from the initial investigation stage to uncover the facts of the recent fire incident at a battery manufacturing company in Hwaseong, according to the Supreme Prosecutors' Office.

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