Kugil Song

Kugil Song

  • Senior Advisor
  • T. +82-2-3404-1952
  • F. +82-2-3404-0804
  • E. kugil.song@bkl.co.kr

Overview

Kugil Song has approximately six years of experience performing design and construction work for petrochemical plants at the Engineering Division of SK Chemicals. Thereafter, he worked for about 30 years at the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, where he carried out duties such as certification of hazardous machinery and equipment, risk assessments, KOSHA-MS audits, and safety diagnosis, and from 2018, served in the Accident Investigation Board at headquarters, where he conducted investigations into major large-scale serious industrial accidents in Korea.
Based on his extensive hands-on experience in industrial accident prevention and accident investigation, Mr. Song is engaged in industrial safety consulting and response to serious industrial accidents at BKL.

Representative Experience

2026-Present Bae, Kim & Lee LLC
2024-2025 Head of the Accident Investigation Board, Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency
2023 Head of the Daegu Metropolitan Accident Investigation Center, Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency
2020-2022 Head of the Special Investigation Team for Serious Accidents, Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency
1997-2019 Occupational Safety and Health Certification Institute, Education and Media Bureau, Gyeonggi Regional Office, etc., Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency
1991-1997 SK Chemicals
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2026-Present Specially Appointed Professor, Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Graduate School, Hansung University
2026-Present Deliberation Committee Member, KOSHA-MS (Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency Management System) Certification Committee, Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency
2026-Present Advisor, Korea Temporary Equipment & Engineering Association
2024-2025 Editorial Committee Member, White Paper on Serious Industrial Accidents published by Ministry of Employment and Labor
2016-Present KOSHA-MS Auditor, Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency

Representative Matters

Fire accident at a logistics cold storage warehouse of Company A
Soil collapse accident at a quarry involving Company B
Fire accident at a lithium battery manufacturing plant of Company C
Carbon dioxide leak accident involving Company D
Conveyor belt accident at a thermal power plant of Company E
Vessel capsizing accident on Uiam Lake involving Company F
Port cargo handling accident involving Company G at a container terminal
Heat exchanger explosion accident at a chemical plant of Company H
Fire accident in the underground parking garage of a large-scale retail facility of Company I
Indonesia-based continuous polymerization project
Petrochemical plant expansion
Polyester drawing project
Solid state polymerization project
UV specialty coatings project
Polymerization batch automation project

Education

2025 Hoseo University (M.S.)
1991 Inha University (B.S.)

Selected Activities

Activity
Lectures on rigging work safety and qualifications for tower crane (T/C) installation and dismantling (Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, 2025-2026)
Lectures for the new labor inspector training program of the Ministry of Employment and Labor (Korea Employment and Labor Educational Institute, Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, 2022-2024, 2026)
Numerous lectures for companies and graduate schools on accident cases and accident prevention (2021-2026)
Lectures to train industrial safety and health instructors and certified industrial safety consultants (Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, 2018-2020, 2024, 2026)
Awards
Citation for Meritorious Contribution to Public-Private Policing Cooperation (Commissioner of the Busan Metropolitan Police Agency, 2025)
Citation for Meritorious Contribution to Industrial Accident Prevention (Minister of Employment and Labor, 2022)
Citation for Meritorious Contribution to Disaster Management (Minister of the Interior and Safety, 2018)

Qualifications

2023 ISO 45001 (Occupational Health and Safety Management System) Auditor
2021 Certified Industrial Safety Consultant
2019 Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator
1998 Professional Engineer in Mechanical Safety