SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — With car owners continuing to report engine fires on BMW’s 520d model, a number of car parks are banning the vehicle in question. A sign at an automated parking building in Seoul’s Gaepo-dong neighborhood in Gangnam-gu yesterday warned, “BMW vehicles absolutely cannot be parked here.” The building, mainly [...]
(image: KobizMedia/ Korea Bizwire) SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Koreans consumers jointly filed a lawsuit against BMW over a faulty part which appears to have caused vehicles to catch fire, a local law firm representing the plaintiffs said Friday. The lawsuit by 13 owners of the BMW 520d sedan is [...]
WONJU, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Yet another 520d saloon produced by German carmaker BMW, which decided earlier in the month to issue a recall due to a series of fires, has gone up in flames. According to the Wonju Fire Department, a fire started in the 520d that an individual referred to only as [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Korean customers has jointly filed a lawsuit against BMW over a component that appears to have recently caused fires in one of its best-selling sedans, the company and the customers’ lawyer said Monday. On Monday, four owners of the BMW 520d sedan lodged a joint [...]
GWANGJU, Jul. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A dog that alerted its owner to help put out a fire that may have led to a larger disaster has been awarded a certificate, while the animal’s owner was given a plaque for his efforts by a fire station in Gwangju. Approximately 20 minutes past midnight on July [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The music video for K-pop act BTS’ “Fire” has been watched over 300 million times on YouTube, becoming the band’s second video to reach the milestone. The view count for the video, which was uploaded on May 1, 2016, stood at 300,169,178 as of 9:20 a.m. Monday, becoming the [...]
MIRYANG, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The death toll from a fire at a hospital in Miryang, a city in southeastern South Korea, rose to 40 after an elderly survivor died in a hospital on Friday, the local government said. The 81-year-old man had been treated for pneumonia at a nearby hospital since the fire [...]
POHANG, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — For the past five months, a fire has burned day and night in the heart of Pohang. Which is why the city announced on August 24 that it has begun the construction of a ring of fire-resistant glass and a platform around the fire in order to turn it [...]
JECHEON, South Korea, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A photo of a dozen firefighters zonked out flat on the ground went viral last week, again highlighting the poor working conditions South Korea’s civil servants are exposed to. The photo was taken May 20 in Jecheon, North Chungcheong Province, during a firefighting operation at a local [...]
GANGNEUNG, South Korea, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A forest fire that broke out in Gangwon Province was finally contained Tuesday three days after it ignited and burned 320 hectares of vegetation, the size of 457 football fields. Among the emergency crews deployed to the combat the fire were some 20,000 soldiers, who instead of [...]