Yesterday, an explosive fire broke out at the factory of a lithium battery GEM company in South Korea, killing 22 people, 19 from China, 1 from Laos and 2 South Koreans.
Why so many Chinese!? Do Korean companies have corporate rules for taking the Chinese back from the back?
1. Why is the number of people who died and the proportion is so large, more than 60 people died 3 adults?
As we all know, if the lithium battery burns, a violent chemical reaction can occur within tens of seconds, and smoke and explosion are common. Aricell's lithium-ion batteries, on the other hand, are mainly used for small devices, which require high energy density due to volume limitations. In 2016, the reason why the sales of Samsung mobile phones in South Korea in the mainland plummeted was also because of the Note7 battery explosion released at that time, which had a great impact.
In the factory building where Aricell is located, it is said that there are 35,000 lithium batteries stored, which is quite a lot, and once a chain reaction occurs, it is difficult not to be injured or even killed if you do not evacuate immediately in a relatively closed space.
But this is only the objective environment, and the real root cause must be that the security measures of the enterprise are not in place as much as possible.
2, Why are all the dead Chinese?
Compared with Japan, in the top three in East Asia, Chinese can communicate more directly and closer to South Korea, and there are many Koreans in Yanji, Jilin Province, northeast of the mainland, who are fluent in Chinese and Korean, and it should not be difficult to communicate with South Koreans. It is rumored that Lao Luo seemed to have said that he could communicate with Koreans without barriers, and also went to South Korea to engage in smuggling business. The purpose of saying this is to say that in fact, many Chinese with barrier-free communication are willing to go to South Korea to live and work, and South Korea has a population of more than 50 million, so let's go to more than one million, this proportion is still a lot.
There is another one, the minimum standard given by South Korea is more than 50 yuan an hour, which is much higher than our domestic consumption, although the consumption there is also high, but if you earn money over there, and then return to China to use, it is still okay. In this way, there are many Chinese who can speak Korean to work directly, and they don't need any too esoteric skills to open a basic salary, but even so, the usual salary + overtime pay + some treatment, the salary is also considerable.
In recent years, under the guidance of demand, we have increased development efforts, and we have far left South Korea, the second place in Asia, in terms of the number of patents and the energy of the shipped battery, and it is a well-deserved hegemon in the world. Although South Korea has its own industrial protection measures, in the field of lithium batteries, I think South Korea is still a little nervous, and reducing costs, improving efficiency, and breaking through scientific research have become immediate things.
When it comes to reducing costs, Chinese people work hard and send money to care for their families, which is a must in the world. South Korean companies generally recognize Chinese workers as well. There are still more Chinese at the factory level.
However, it is not known whether there are rules and regulations specifically for grassroots employees within the grassroots of Aricell, and if so, there happen to be a large number of foreign and especially Chinese workers at the grassroots level, and even if an accident occurs, it is not a native who dies? Thinking about it this way, I think it's unlikely, the value of life should not be crossed, not to mention that the death of a foreigner will not affect your company equally, and even affect a wider range, it is said that the stock price of Aricell's joint-stock company fell off a cliff on the same day.
3. What do you think about this?
Some time ago, led by Toyota Motor Corporation, almost all Japanese car companies apologized for the falsification of automobile test data, which is essentially a case of corporate profit-seeking in order to pursue efficiency, and the top management forcibly promoted the principle of efficiency first, blindly pursued on-time standards, and ignored the actual problems in the underlying work, resulting in the falsification of automobile data in Japan.
At the moment when the competition in lithium batteries is so fierce, it is indeed understandable to increase efficiency and reduce costs as the company's purpose, but it must be under the premise of compliance, such as shortening the car review time through car data fraud and going to market as soon as possible.
Whether the fire and explosion incident in South Korea's lithium battery factory also has this aspect of the cause is an aspect that needs to be considered after the results of the investigation.
In recent years, many projects in our country have developed rapidly, and we also need to keep the alarm bell ringing. While pursuing efficiency, we also care about the practical difficulties of grassroots employees in their work, less lithium battery explosion, more human care, and more life safety for every ordinary person.
Write on the walk, the sentence does not make sense, forgive the typo. Finally, for everyone, regardless of nationality, rest in peace.