Apartment Collapse May Impact South Korean Builders Bids for Foreign Construction Contracts
It seems every few years a Korean builders gets exposed for shoddy construction. Here is the latest example which could impact the entire Korean construction industry:
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| Rebar and wires are exposed in the collapsed parking garage of GS E&C’s apartment complex construction site in Incheon in this May 2 file photo. Yonhap |
The government’s recent disclosure of poorly built underground parking garages of apartment complexes nationwide has not only sparked fears about the safety of Korea’s housing construction, but also caused concerns over a potential setback in Korea’s ambitious plan to win $50 billion in overseas construction orders every year until 2027, industry experts said Wednesday.
Korea Times
Given that GS E&C, DL Construction, Hyosung Heavy Industries and other major Korean builders have been criticized for building parking garages having insufficient steel bars in their pillars, the experts warned that foreign clients may avoid placing orders with those companies.
“This issue will eventually affect the overseas business of Korean builders, tarnishing the country’s reputation as a construction powerhouse,” said Choe Myeong-ki, who is in charge of the construction sector in the Industrial Field Professors under supervision of the labor ministry. “Foreign clients will raise questions about the capability of Korean builders involved in poor construction.”
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Those companies cheapened out by taking away some crucial underground support steel cross pillars to cut costs.
But those companies have done nothing wrong in terms of legality since the Yoon administration came to power a couple of years ago and loosened the regulations for those companies, in the name of helping big business, in the name of undoing all the ‘commie leftist policies’.
This is how bad governments affect lives in Korea.
“since the Yoon administration came to power a couple of years ago and loosened the regulations for those companies”
I’m slightly familiar with the regulations that Yoon loosened. I thought they were all administrative.
Kindly help us out and explain exactly which loosened regulation made it legal to reduce construction strength in parking garages.
Continuing the legalization and promotion of females in the workplace. Women engineers are notoriously bad. Whether it’s bridges or submarines, run far if you see women “engineers.” I see Korea’s Ministry of Gender Equality has not only continued under Yoon, but has also likely been strengthened.
Regulations should be strengthened absolutely. Ban all women from the workforce other than housewifery and most modern problems would cease to exist.
This was all well predicted and expected that there will be more building disasters coming after Yoon was elected (one of his election promises was to relax rules and regulations in the construction and real estate companies who were clamoring for relaxing construction material testing and safety inspections).
Below is a Korean article published in July 2022, 3 months after Yoon came to power.
https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion/because/1050517.html
translation:
Except this had nothing to do with engineering and design of buildings – they were fine. It’s the cost-cutting option given to construction companies to get rid of supporting cross-supporting beams and leave the support posts without any cross beams. The issue now is, how many buildings were built like this in the last year, and continue to be built like this today. A lot of homeowners who live in apartments built by these same construction companies are living in fear.
I wonder how many of them voted for this criminal party. They’re getting what they deserve. I only feel sorry for those who didn’t vote for Yoon but who suffer because of the stupidity of others.
I am unable to evaluate the validity of an opinion piece in a communist publication.
The claim is Moon made things better but Yoon returned things to the way it was in 2020.
I am skeptical buildings falling down now but not pre-2020 indicates Yoon is responsible.
Mixed feelings on female engineers (in Korea).
Female engineering students are notoriously lazy and reliant on male engineeing students to do the work.
In general, normal girls make poor engineers.
The good female engineers are borderline autistic.
You asked for a source, I gave it to you, and all you have is a, they are a commie.
It’s not a claim. It’s a fact. Moon strengthened construction laws, only to have Yoon not only undo them but loosened them and even undid what Lee Myung Bak’s administration over 10 years ago, had in place.
He’s responsible because he loosened the construction regulations so much that safety is compromised than it should have been. It’s not a coincidence that building collapses only happen during Conservative right-wing administrations.
In 2017, Korea successfully held the boy scout jamboree.
In 2023, 40,000 kids from around the world are dying of heat, hunger, and lack of accommodations due to a lack of planning for safety.
One American father twitted, “My daugther is over there now! The kids are dying from the heat and from hunger, what the hell is going on over there? Do something!”
The president and his wife attended this Jamboree, and three ministers directly under the president were also members of the executive committee that organized the international event.
Here’s the clip of the news showing the same interior minister who was responsible for the Itaewon crush, but who got off free by the superior court, bragging that he was prepared to host the international festival for kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgA0uobs-dE&ab_channel=JTBCNews
You made statements about Yoon relaxing construction standards.
Your souce was an opinion piece in a leftist anti-Yoon publication concerning certification of flamable materials.
Simply explain what laws Yoon changed that are responsible for collaped parking garages.
If you can’t or won’t do that, I will consider the matter resolved.
If you are illiterate and can’t read and understand the article on your own, it’s not my problem.
If you can’t or won’t do that, I will consider the matter resolved.
Actually, we have learned that you feed off on our responses, so sometimes it makes strategic sense to ignore you since that makes you more desperate and agitated.
“Actually, we have learned that you feed off on our responses”
Am I that transparent?
Here is how you should manage me:
Say what ever you want and give random links as supporting evidence in hopes nobody verifies.
If you get called on it, bring up racism or illiteracy accusations instead of addressing the issue. USE ALL CAPS IF POSSIBLE.
If you can’t slink out of it, just ignore it all and move on to a new topic to hyperventilae over.
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