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![Members of a joint forensic investigation team arrive at the site of a boiler tower collapse at a thermal power plant in the southeastern city of Ulsan on Nov. 18. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/12301632.jpg?imageId=12301632&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Officials stand in line as the body of the last worker, who was trapped in the collapsed boiler tower of the Ulsan Thermal Power Plant, is recovered on Nov. 14. [NEWS1]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11952541.jpg?imageId=11952541&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Kwon Myung-ho, third from right, president of Korea East-West Power, bows in apology along with company executives at the rear gate of the Ulsan thermal power plant where a boiler tower collapsed, on the morning of Nov. 13, a week after the accident. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/12353090.jpg?imageId=12353090&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Operations take place to demolish boiler towers No. 4 and 6 at the Ulsan Thermal Power Plant site in Ulsan on Nov. 11. The disaster headquarters decided to go ahead with the demolition at noon in order to bring in heavier equipment to locate and rescue workers trapped under boiler tower No. 5. [SONG BONG-GEUN]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/12291062.jpg?imageId=12291062&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Two boiler towers obstructing the search for missing workers at the collapsed boiler tower, center, are seen at the Ulsan Thermal Power Plant in Ulsan on Nov. 10. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11978041.jpg?imageId=11978041&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Boiler Tower Unit 5 is seen collapsed at the Ulsan Thermal Power Plant in Ulsan on Nov. 9. Rescue operations were halted on Nov. 8 afternoon after an alarm went off warning the possible risk of another collapse. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/12334059.jpg?imageId=12334059&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![A boiler tower at the Ulsan Thermal Power Plant is seen collapsed in Nam District, Ulsan, on Nov. 10. Fire authorities have suspended the search while conducting preliminary work to bring down reactors No. 4 and 6, located on either side of the collapsed boiler tower No. 5. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/12053371.jpg?imageId=12053371&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Minister of Employment and Labor Kim Young-hoon gives a briefing at the site of the Ulsan Thermal Power Plant boiler tower collapse on the afternoon of Nov. 9, the fourth day since the accident. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/12267391.jpg?imageId=12267391&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Demolition equipment is being set up at the Ulsan Thermal Power Plant in Ulsan for Boiler Towers 4 and 6 in order to continue the rescue operations at the collapsed Boiler Tower Unit 5 on Nov. 9. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/12421525.jpg?imageId=12421525&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Officials inspect the remaining Boiler Tower Units 4 and 6 to work on the demolition process at the Ulsan Thermal Power Plant on Nov. 9. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/12450666.jpg?imageId=12450666&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)