Tall & Urban News

Investigators on Wednesday, 19 January, 2022 raided the headquarters of HDC Hyundai Development Co. in connection with a recent accident at its construction site in Gwangju that left one worker dead and five others missing.

Officials from the Ministry of Employment and Labor and the National Police Agency conducted a joint raid of the real estate developer's headquarters in central Seoul to search for evidence in connection with the accident that occurred on 11 January, 2022. 

Search operations have continued for a week after the façade on a 39-story apartment building under construction crumbled to the ground in Gwangju, about 330 kilometers southwest of Seoul. Five construction workers remain unaccounted for, with one worker found dead under the rubble Friday, 21 January, 2022. 

For more on this story, go to Korea Herald.