South Korea: A Critical Infrastructure Fails Today

@daitojimari渡邉哲也 代表戸締役 by showrin

今回、日本の報道各社が報じたことで韓国の電力の欠陥が表面化した。これにより、韓国の電力事情の脆弱性が周知されたといえよう。つまり、リスクの高い韓国に進出した企業の経営者に対し、リスクマネジメントの責任を問える環境が整ったと考えられる。

tweets As reported by the Japanese media today, defective aspects of electricity generation and supply system in South Korea have been detected, thereby making vulnerability of South Korea known to us; that is, confirmation of the particular environment in which CEOs responsible for investments in South Korea will be blamed for their risk management failures if something goes wrong.

Steve Herman

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Voice of America Bureau Chief/Correspondent covering Korea and Japan. Based in Seoul. Tokyo homeowner.

#ROK Ministry of Knowledge Economy: main cause of today's widespread power outage was unanticipated high demand for electricity at time when many plants, including nuke reactors, were offline.

S. Korea pwr outage affected 820,000 homes for 6 hrs. Officials say demand was 3.2 m kw higher than expected due to hot weather.