SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The presidential office on Friday called for comprehensive measures to prevent residential fires following recent tragedies in which children died in apartment fires while their parents were away. On Wednesday, two girls, aged 8 and 6, were found dead after a fire broke out in their apartment in Busan. [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Firefighters on Tuesday extinguished a blaze that broke out at a building inside the Jogye Temple compound in central Seoul, with no casualties reported, officials said. The blaze was put out at 11:57 a.m. about an hour and a half after it began at the international conference hall on [...]
GWANGJU, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Firefighters on Tuesday extinguished a massive fire that ravaged Kumho Tire’s plant in Gwangju, about three days after it first broke out. Fire authorities had fully put out the fire as of 11:50 a.m. after it began Saturday morning at the plant in Gwangju, about 270 kilometers south of [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The main flames of a fire at the COEX exhibition center in southern Seoul have been contained, firefighting officials said Friday, amid no report of casualties. The fire broke out inside a restaurant on the second floor of the exhibition center and firefighters responded to a fire report shortly [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Carbon dioxide emissions from forest fires in South Korea have nearly doubled compared to last year’s total, raising concerns about a potential feedback loop where climate change and wildfires accelerate each other’s impacts. According to Our World in Data, South Korean forest fires released 2,345,182 tons of carbon dioxide through March [...]
YEONGDEOK, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — In a devastating blow to South Korea’s premier pine mushroom producing region, residents of Samhwa-2 village in Yeongdeok County, North Gyeongsang Province, are grappling with concerns about their fall harvest following a massive wildfire that swept through the area. “This village is the country’s largest pine mushroom production site, [...]
BUSAN, South Korea, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) – As aviation authorities strengthen in-flight safety measures for power banks and electronic cigarettes, South Korean fire officials have highlighted the dangers of lithium-ion battery thermal runaway through a recent experiment. On March 12, the Busan Fire & Disaster Headquarters conducted a public demonstration to assess the risks associated [...]
BUAN, South Korea, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A search was under way for six people missing after a fishing boat with 11 people on board caught fire in waters off the southwestern coast on Thursday, the Coast Guard said. Five people were rescued. The 34-ton fishing vessel caught fire in waters near Buan, 204 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Eighteen people were injured after a fire broke out at a motel in Hwaseong, 44 kilometers south of Seoul, on Monday night, a local fire station said Tuesday. The four-story, 30-room motel in Hwaseong’s Bongdam district was engulfed in flames shortly after 10 p.m. Monday before being extinguished by [...]
POHANG, South Korea, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A POSCO factory in the southeastern city of Pohang has suffered its second fire in two weeks, officials said Monday, with no casualties reported. The fire started at the steel company’s patented No. 3 Finex furnace of the plant, located some 270 kilometers southeast of Seoul, at [...]