Deaths of South Korean couriers blamed on overwork during pandemic delivery boom | South China Morning Post

South Korea is experiencing a delivery boom driven by the coronavirus pandemic. But the business benefits come at a sobering cost to the sector, which has seen as many as fifteen delivery workers dying as of mid-November 2020. Families of those who died said extreme overwork had harmed the health of the workers.

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