SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Mercedes-Benz Korea Ltd. on Friday expressed “deep regret” over a parking lot fire this week caused by an explosion of an electric vehicle. The white EV sedan, which appeared to be of Mercedes-Benz’s EQE line, caught fire in an underground parking lot inside an apartment complex in Incheon, 27 kilometers west [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military unit based in Lebanon provided emergency relief items to the Middle Eastern country on Saturday to help recovery from a recent deadly explosion, Seoul’s defense ministry said. A total of 6,000 sets of medical supplies and other relief items were handed over by the Dongmyung Unit [...]
ULSAN, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – An explosion at a military base in this southern South Korean city Tuesday injured more than 20 soldiers, authorities said. The blast of unknown cause took place at around 11:50 a.m. at a training camp for reservists in Ulsan, some 410 kilometers southeast of Seoul, according to the authorities. [...]
SEOUL, Sept.1 (Korea Bizwire) – Consumers who were lucky enough to get their hands on the new Galaxy Note 7 are now anxious that they may have purchased a faulty product. According to industry watchers, at least five cases of exploding Note 7s have been reported on online message boards, including two in Korea, since [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. has halted deliveries of its flagship Galaxy Note 7 phablet to South Korean mobile carriers amid a series of reports at home and abroad that a few of the devices were “exploding” while they were being charged, industry officials said Wednesday. The stoppage of Galaxy Note [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The first allegations of a Galaxy Note 7 catching on fire came on August 24 in a post on Ppomppu, an online community largely frequented by smartphone users for tips and feedback. The victim said in a post that her “boyfriend’s Galaxy Note 7 exploded while it was charging,” [...]
ULSAN, Jul. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Chemical is acting fast to recover from the Ulsan chemical plant explosion that killed 6 people on July 3, as the company promised the maximum compensation possible and quickly stopped operating production lines at the plant. Kim Chang-bum, CEO of Hanwha Chemical, publically apologized for the tragedy, and [...]
ULSAN, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Six workers were killed and another one was injured Friday when an explosion occurred at a chemical plant in the southeastern coastal city of Ulsan, fire officials said. The blast occurred at around 9:19 a.m. when the workers were doing welding work on a storage tank containing waste at [...]