3 Broadcasting Labor Unions Sue CJ ENM

The National Union of Media Workers, the Hope Solidarity Union Broadcasting Staff Branch and the Hanbit Media Labor and Human Rights Center (the 3 broadcasting labor unions) said they will file complaints against the production company Studio Dragon and CJ ENM over the OCN drama "Tell Me What You Saw" set to air in February next year.

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The Hope Solidarity Union Broadcasting Staff Branch held a press conference and announced that it would file a complaint with the Employment and Labor Administration against CJ ENM, an OCN drama "Tell Me What You Saw" broadcaster, and Studio Dragon and H House, the production companies, for violating the Labor Standards Act and the Industrial Safety and Health Act.

Oh Jung-hoon, chairman of the press union, said, "The contents of the measures to prevent safety and the follow-up are poor", stressing that the Ministry of Employment and Labor should conduct regular map checks to see if guidelines are being followed at the broadcasting production sites.

"CJ ENM announced through Studio Dragon that it had taken measures to prevent a recurrence of safety accidents, but it has remained silent on the request for a meeting to establish safety measures", said the three broadcasting labor unions.

Earlier on the 29th of November, at the filming site of "Tell Me What You Saw", a car crash injured eight staff members. One of the staff members suffered serious injuries, including fracturing of the second and fourth vertebrae, self-transplanting them using the pelvic bones, and pinning 12 of the pins on the fifth to tenth vertebrae to fix the back.

In response, an official at H House, which is in charge of producing the drama, told YTN Star that the final agreement was reached based on what had been discussed directly with the victims and their families on December 22nd. "We cannot reveal the details, but contrary to their concerns, the level of compensation for industrial accidents will exceed that of industrial accidents, and we will make efforts to recover and stabilize the victims in the future and focus our efforts on the safety management of the site", it explained.

"The victim is suffering mentally by the issue caused by this, regardless of his will, and does not exactly agree with what the others claim about the accident. Because of this, the victim refused to attend the press conference requested by the broadcasting labor unions, refused to delegate the right to consultancy, and is focusing on rehabilitation, rather than on external issues".

Although it was said that the victim is known to need one and a half years of treatment, he is expected to be discharged after a three-month rehabilitation period due to good progress after the surgery.

Studio Dragon said it has set up guidelines for outdoor filming safety management to prevent the recurrence of safety accidents and started applying them to the entire site. "As an individual operator, we are participating in the four-way consultative body under discussion by the three ground-wave broadcasters, the media workers' union and the 3 broadcasting labor unions. We will make efforts to improve the environment for the production of dramas".