"an appliance company"

‘구토 후 졸도 사진’ 가족에 보내 “데려가라”···1시간 열사병 방치 끝 사망 - 경향신문 (khan.co.kr)

‘구토 후 졸도 사진’ 가족에 보내 “데려가라”···1시간 열사병 방치 끝 사망

The news article above is in Korean. You can use any free translation service abundant on the internet and see what had happened. What you cannot find from the article is who is "the appliance company".

 

Hint: it can be one of the largest conglomerate in Korea. (I might as well remove "one of" though -- note that I did not use a plural form in "conglomerate")

 

Just in case any free translation service is not readily available for you and you can tolerate my broken English, here goes a brief summary on what happened:

 

Unbearably hot and humid summer weather continues in Korea these days. A school district in Korea contracted an installation of the air conditioners with "an appliance company". The engineer (in his early 20's) who was installing the air conditioners vomited and fell down due to the obvious heat stroke on 16:40 according to the CCTV footage of the school (the job site).

 

The appliance company sent a picture of the scene that shows the engineer lie down on a garden bed (under a direct sunlight) unconscious to the engineer's family and asked if the engineer has any underlying illness he has on 17:10 (30 minutes after the incident happened, likely because they had to get a direction from their legal department). And then on 17:20, the company texted the family again and ask the family to take the engineer. On 17:27, the company asked (likely through the text message but not clear on this), "the condition of the engineer seems to be serious. can we report this to 911 (119 in Korea) ?". and then with his mom's consent, the company reported it to 911 on 17:28. 911 arrived to the engineer around 17:41. (61 minutes had happened from the incident. Rule of thumb in CPR - I have a certificate - is, every minute that goes by, you lose 10% of surviving probability from the incident) he was transferred to a near-by hospital while getting CPR but passed away on 19:14. He might have survived if:

 

1. he wasn't neglected under direct sunlight for over an hour after he fell down obviously due to the heat stroke. (it is a common sense to shield any patient from direct sunlight in such a hot and humid weather no matter what)

2. he got CPR within the few minutes after the incident, even before the 911 arrived (so the school does not have anyone who can do CPR on Tuesday afternoon ? what would happen if one of the students get a heat stroke ?)

3. the company called 911 right away without getting the company's legal directions (This company has a proven track record on this kind of behavior with a strong support from their legal team, rotten with the administration - government, and the judiciary department alike at the moment in Korea)

 

Reporting something to 911 does not require any consent. The company simply tried to disguise the obvious job related injury to an underlying disease that does not exist and killed the employee in the process. The company violated any reasonable process that had to be taken for such a medical emergency in any reasonable country.

 

So why the company name wasn't anywhere on the news article while such info is readily available in other news articles ? It is on your guess and that is why I am writing this in English, specifically.