Another death at Coupang

Another worker collapsed and died during a late-night shift at a Coupang logistics center. He had been on the job for just eight months. His death is not an isolated tragedy, nor can it be dismissed as an unforeseeable accident. It is part of a grim and sustained pattern at one of Korea’s most powerful corporations, one in which grieving families and colleagues repeatedly carry the burden of proving what should already be obvious: that the system is failing, that workers are paying the price and that the company responsible has yet to take meaningful responsibility. The succession of deaths at Coupang over the past several years has laid bare something larger than a single company’s negligence. It has exposed a structural disaster unfolding in plain sight, one driven by deregulation, an economic model built on prioritizing speed and a corporate culture that treats human limits as obstacles to be engineered away. What is happening at Coupang is a warning about the consequences of unchecked competition and weak government oversight. Part of the problem lies in the regulatory vacuum tWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times