GWANGJU, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Daein Market, Gwangju’s most representative traditional market, stood against the danger of massive fire, thanks to the so-called ‘visible fire extinguishers’. On a Tuesday morning, a fire broke out in one of the food stores inside the Daein Market, which might have easily spread across closely packed shops [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — With the recent series of fires in BMW vehicles and Korean-made cars, car safety items are selling better than ever. Ticket Monster, a leading e-commerce website, said revenue derived from sales of car fire extinguishers during a period of two weeks between August 1 to 14 grew by 3,246 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales of “talking fire extinguishers” designed by a pair of Gyeonggi Province firefighters have exceeded 27,000 units just seven months after they were first released. Besides Gyeonggi Province, which purchased 16,000 units in bulk, the rest of the buyers have been more diverse, including schools, lodging establishments, fire departments [...]
SUWON, South Korea, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Two firemen – Hong Eui-sun and Baek Jung-yeol – from the Gyeonggi Disaster and Safety Headquarters came up with an idea for new fire extinguishers two years ago when a survey revealed that majority of the public was not aware of how to use fire extinguishers and [...]
Seoul, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A fire extinguisher that puts out fires in their initial stages using sound waves has been invented by a national research team. Soongsil University announced Professor Bae Myung-jin of the Sound Engineering Lab and his team invented the Sound Wind fire extinguisher and developed initial products. The Sound Wind fire [...]