Korea Serious Accident Penalty Calculator

Estimate Korean Serious Accidents Punishment Act criminal exposure, administrative fines, punitive damages, total cost, and safety-obligation risk.

Serious Accident Penalty Inputs

Disaster typeDamage typeBusiness sizeIndustryAnnual revenue

KRW

Deaths

Injuries

Diseases

Victim average monthly income

KRW

Victim average age

Treatment cost per person

KRW

Labor loss rate

Employer fault rate

System violation countManagement-system violationPrevention-plan violationEducation violationRecurrenceNursing needed

Max estimated cost

₩7,479,919,680

Min estimated cost

₩783,548,480

Risk level

critical

Punitive multiplier

3.5x

Penalty Detail

Executive imprisonment: 1년 이상의 징역
Executive max fine: ₩1,000,000,000
Corporation max fine: ₩5,000,000,000
Administrative fine total: ₩105,000,000
Compliance rate: 0%

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What Is the Korea Serious Accident Penalty Calculator?

This calculator estimates Korean Serious Accidents Punishment Act exposure for serious industrial accidents and serious public accidents, including criminal fine exposure, administrative fines, punitive damages, total estimated cost, obligation status, and risk level.

The English calculator calls the same Korean serious-accident function. It evaluates disaster type, damage type, business size, industry, annual revenue, death count, injury count, disease count, victim income and age, treatment cost, nursing, labor-loss rate, checked safety obligations, violation counts, recurrence, response level, and employer fault rate.

Important Note

Serious accident exposure is not only a damages question. Management-responsible persons, corporations, safety-management systems, post-accident orders, administrative fines, criminal investigation, and civil punitive damages may all proceed together.

Penalty Standards Reflected

Topic	Korean model standard	Result field
Executive death case	Imprisonment at least 1 year or fine up to KRW 1 billion	Criminal executive penalty
Corporation death case	Corporate fine up to KRW 5 billion	Corporate penalty and maximum exposure
Injury or disease case	Executive imprisonment up to 7 years or fine up to KRW 100 million; corporation fine up to KRW 1 billion	Criminal penalty range
Punitive damages	Multiplier simulation up to 5 times in the source model	Punitive damages and total estimated cost

Administrative Fine and Obligation Logic

Violation counts for education, management system, prevention plan, and correction order are modeled as first, second, or third violations using Korean fine tables.
Unchecked safety obligations add separate administrative fine items.
Business size matters because Serious Accidents Punishment Act applicability expanded by workplace scale over time.
Response level and recurrence influence punitive multiplier and risk level rather than only the criminal fine.

Using the Result

The estimate is useful for crisis planning: board reporting, reserve setting, settlement strategy, insurance review, safety-order compliance, and investigation response.

Actual exposure depends on causation, manager duty, safety budget, contractor structure, prior warnings, corrective orders, and accident investigation records.

FAQ

Is the corporation fine the same as victim compensation?

No. Criminal or administrative fines are paid to the state. Victim compensation and punitive damages are separate civil exposure in the model.

Why does the calculator ask about checked obligations?

Safety-management obligations are central to the Act. Missing obligations affect administrative fines and the punitive-damages score in the Korean function.

Legal Use Notice

This English page translates and adapts the Korean calculator content for Korea-based estimates. The interactive calculator reuses the same Korean pure calculation function as the Korean page, so the numerical result is aligned with the Korean service. It is an estimation tool, not legal advice for a specific dispute.