{"id":140502,"date":"2022-06-12T18:35:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T23:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/fearing-lawsuits-factories-rush-to-replace-humans-with-robots-in-south-korea"},"modified":"2022-06-12T18:35:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T23:35:26","slug":"fearing-lawsuits-factories-rush-to-replace-humans-with-robots-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/fearing-lawsuits-factories-rush-to-replace-humans-with-robots-in-south-korea","title":{"rendered":"Fearing lawsuits, factories rush to replace humans with robots in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fearing-lawsuits-factories-rush-to-replace-humans-with-robots-in-south-korea2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout our history, we\u2019ve always had to find ways to stay ahead,\u201d Kim told <em>Rest of World<\/em>. \u201cAutomation is the next step in that process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speefox\u2019s factory is 75% automated, representing South Korea\u2019s continued push away from human labor. Part of that drive is labor costs: South Korea\u2019s minimum wage has climbed, rising 5% just this year.<\/p>\n<p>But the most recent impetus is legal liability for worker death or injury. In January, a law came into effect called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moel.go.kr\/english\/news\/moelNewsDetail.do?idx=3065\">Serious Disasters Punishment Act<\/a>, which says, effectively, that if workers die or sustain serious injuries on the job, and courts determine that the company neglected safety standards, the CEO or high-ranking managers could be fined or go to prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThroughout our history, we\u2019ve always had to find ways to stay ahead,\u201d Kim told Rest of World. \u201cAutomation is the next step in that process.\u201d Speefox\u2019s factory is 75% automated, representing South Korea\u2019s continued push away from human labor. Part of that drive is labor costs: South Korea\u2019s minimum wage has climbed, rising 5% just [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1493,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}