What Happened to "Safe Korea"?

A few weeks ago, I was walking through my small town in North Jeolla Province when I saw a building under construction. Two floors up, a sign proclaimed, “There is no exception to safety, no premonition of accidents.” Five stories above that, directly in line with the sign, a worker walked around freely on the scaffolding with a hard hat but no harness. There was nothing in place to stop his body from slipping and falling from his precarious perch. I couldn’t help but think, is that what safety