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14 Jan 2008

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Yonhap News [So. Korea]

Deal reached for warehouse fire compensation as owner faces legal action [So. Korea]

The families of the 40 people killed in last week's warehouse fire are to receive average compensation payments of 240 million won (US$256,000) each from the facility's owner, who faces legal action for allegedly violating safety laws...Most of the victims were daily wage earners, many of them migrant workers from China, working in unsafe conditions. [refers to Korea 2000]