Bereaved families protest Supreme Court's decision to uphold Aricell CEO’s 4-year prison term
On Tuesday morning, Lee Soon-hee, 56, broke down outside the Supreme Court after it upheld the prison sentence for Aricell CEO Park Soon-kwan over a deadly factory fire in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province. “The victims were all so young. How can they be so cold-blooded?” Lee shouted, leaning on a labor activist. “Are we being treated unfairly because we are foreign nationals? It is so frustrating that my daughter died this way.” The fire on June 24, 2024, killed 23 workers, including 18 foreign natio
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