SK E&C’s attempts to cut costs led to design changes that resulted in collapse of dam in Laos

18 October 2018
The Hankyoreh
Hydropower dams
design changes resulted in collapse of dam in Laos

SK E&C attempted to earn excessive profits with changes to the format and design of a dam in Laos that eventually collapsed last July, an internal document confirmed on Oct. 14. Indeed, the heights of the collapsed dam and other auxiliary dams handled by SK E&C were an average of 6.5m lower than in the basic design diagrams included in the document.

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 Seo Young-ji

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