Starting in the 1990s, the South Korean government and corporations pursued neoliberal globalization by loosening regulations, promoting capital mobility, and making the labour market flexible. This process has resulted in the rise of precarity in employment, leading to the stratification of workers, with a significant number of irregular workers who face numerous challenges such as safety threats, lower wages, and job insecurity. South Korea became a country with a high work-related fatality rate globally. Many of the victims were irregular workers like Kim Yong-kyun, a 23 years old irregular worker who was killed while working the night shift alone at Taean Thermal Power Plant on December 10, 2018. His tragic death was widely publicized through a photograph of him holding a placard taken as proof of his participation in the campaign calling for changes in the labor conditions of irregular workers. His image was reproduced and circulated through various media, saturated into popular culture. This presentation discusses the role of visual images of industrial deaths in prompting social awareness, mourning, and activism, with a focus on the MBC virtual reality documentary Meeting Yong-kyun (2021) and the film Light for the Youth (2020), directed by Shin Su-Won (197 words).