Hyundai Engineering Faces 8-Month Business Suspension Over Highway Bridge Collapse

Bridge Collapse on Seoul-Sejong Expressway in February Last Year

Hyundai Engineering disclosed on the 11th that the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport had imposed an eight-month business suspension over the bridge collapse at its Seoul-Sejong Expressway construction site in Anseong, Gyeonggi Province.

In February last year, a structure collapsed during girder installation at the construction site for Cheongnyongcheon Bridge, Section 9 of the Cheonan-Anseong stretch of the Seoul-Sejong Expressway in Seoun-myeon, Anseong, where Hyundai Engineering was the contractor. Four workers were killed and six were injured. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport determined the penalty based on the grounds that the company had “caused serious damage to a major structural part of a facility or inflicted casualties on the general public by performing defective construction intentionally or through gross negligence.”

Last February, a bridge deck collapsed while being installed on a pier at construction site No. 9 of the Cheonan-Anseong section of the Seoul-Sejong Expressway in Sanpyeong-ri, Seoun-myeon, Anseong, Gyeonggi Province. Yonhap News Agency

The order applies to the company’s domestic civil engineering and building construction contracts and will take effect on January 1 next year. Hyundai Engineering said it plans to respond by seeking a stay of enforcement of the business suspension and filing a lawsuit to revoke the administrative disposition. If the stay is granted, the company can continue its business as usual until a final ruling is issued in the main lawsuit. Separately, construction can continue under contracts awarded before the order or on projects already under construction.

In July, the Seoul Metropolitan Government had imposed a three-month business suspension over the same accident. That penalty was for violating safety measure requirements. The company filed a lawsuit against the Seoul Metropolitan Government in response.

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