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image by Jens Pattke, 25 May 2017
image located by Esteban Rivera, 10 April 2016
Today I located this picture (source) which shows on the left the flag of KEPCO (a Korean government electricity company), but on the right, I cannot identify the other flag (it is a green horizontal flag with a yellow "O" and below some inscription in Korean).
The picture was taken in Kaesong, in Pyeonghwa (P'yonghwa-ri: Choson'gul) (literally "peace") (source: Peace Village - North_Korea)
subdistrict/village.
Other websites featuring the same image are: Image #1 (source); Image #2 (source); Image #3 (source); and Image #4
(source).
If anybody has further information I'd really appreciate it.
Esteban Rivera, 10 April 2016
Even though I am not speaking Korean, I have been able to partially translate the Korean characters on this flag. The first one (the flag is viewed from the back) is obscured by the bent flag, but the second is "jae" and that third is "hae", or, more appropriately: 재 and 해,
respectively. Exactly what they mean, I still do not know. Since the Korean characters are syllabic, they may mean many things (I guess).
Using Korean Wikipedia, I found both characters on the "industrial disaster" page and the imagery using Google pictures with those two characters is quite overwhelming.
I think it thus may mean something along the lines of "safety" or "disaster (prevention)" or "exist". In fact, the infinitive "(to) exist" is written 존재해, though this can just be coincidence. Clearly, I need to improve my Korean before trying to find unknown Korean flags, as I am no nearer a positive ID on the flag! However, I would like to hope that I helped out a wee bit.
Daniel Lundberg, 3 May 2016
The flag is the Korean equivalent of the Japanese safety flags. The hangul reads
무재해 (No Accident).
Miles Li, 25 May 2017
As Miles points out, the flag is the 무재해 flag meaning "Zero Hazards" or "Disaster free". In fact, the symbol in the middle stands for numeral "0" (as in zero accidents in the workplace). Indeed further research indicated there seem to be two versions:
The second variant of the flag seems to be the official one as created by the 안전보건공단 (anjeonbogeongongdan), or "Korea Occupational Safety & Health Agency". (source #1 and (source #2). For additional information go to KOSHA. (official website)
Esteban Rivera, 25 May 2017