{"id":16006,"date":"2024-06-25T06:13:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T01:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiokunduz.com\/en\/2024\/06\/25\/worldblaze-at-south-korea-lithium-battery-plant-kills-22-workers\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T18:24:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T13:54:29","slug":"worldblaze-at-south-korea-lithium-battery-plant-kills-22-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiokunduz.com\/en\/?p=16006","title":{"rendered":"WORLDBlaze at South Korea lithium battery plant kills 22 workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>South Korea is home to major producers of lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs) and to one of the world\u2019s biggest automakers, Hyundai Motor, and its affiliate Kia (000270.KS), opens new tab, which are making a push to shift away from internal combustion cars to EVs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lithium battery factory in South Korea was set on fire after multiple batteries exploded on Monday, killing 22 workers, most of them Chinese nationals, fire officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire and a series of explosions ripped through the factory run by primary battery manufacturer Aricell in Hwaseong, an industrial cluster southwest of the capital Seoul, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea is home to major producers of lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs) and to one of the world\u2019s biggest automakers, Hyundai Motor, and its affiliate Kia (000270.KS), opens new tab, which are making a push to shift away from internal combustion cars to EVs. A lithium battery factory in South Korea was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[106],"class_list":{"0":"post-16006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-top-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiokunduz.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiokunduz.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiokunduz.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiokunduz.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiokunduz.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiokunduz.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18190,"href":"https:\/\/radiokunduz.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16006\/revisions\/18190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiokunduz.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiokunduz.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiokunduz.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiokunduz.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}