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28,244 falls: Korea's top workplace injury in 2024
Korea's Ministry of Employment and Labor tracks every reported workplace injury by cause. In 2024, simple falls and slips — not machinery, not falls from height — injured more workers than anything else. A second cause is catching up fast.
Korea's leading indicator has climbed for a year. Its coincident gauge has barely moved.
Statistics Korea's leading cyclical index rose every month for a year, 100.0 to 105.7, yearly growth doubling to 8.8%. The coincident gauge — the here-and-now — sat flat near 100. The forward signal is loud, the present quiet. Not advice.