The accident left two dead and more than 60 heavily wounded.

On the same day part of ceiling at a construction site of a gymnasium in Seoul gave way, leaving seven workers under it buried in rubbles.

Accidents of various kinds have become unabated from the outset of the new year, causing great public fear.

The south Korean newspaper Korea Economic Daily on Feb. 11 reported that traffic accidents in 2013 alone claimed 1,787,686 lives.

Serious accidents doing harm to the lives of people can never be checked as long as the architect of the ferry Sewol disaster keeps pursuing unpopular rule.