The blaze broke out at around 10:31 a.m. local time at a facility operated by battery maker Aricell in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, about 50 kilometers southwest of Seoul. It was extinguished ...

Lithium battery maker Aricell CEO Park Soon-kwan, who is involved in a deadly fire accident, is seen in a photo after ending his questioning session for an arrest warrant in a local court in ...

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. The victims likely ...

Prosecutors filed for arrest warrants for lithium battery maker Aricell CEO Park Soon-kwan and three other executives on Friday on multiple charges related to a deadly fire in the company's ...

A firefighter outside the Aricell plant June 24. (Credit: Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images) Twenty-two people are dead following an explosion at a battery factory in Hwaseong, South Korea ...

Authorities in South Korea concluded the search for a missing worker after a body was recovered on Tuesday, taking the death toll in a powerful explosion and fire at a lithium battery factory to 23.

Suwon District Court approved a warrant to arrest Aricell CEO Park Soon-kwan over his role in the June blaze late on Wednesday, a court spokesperson said. The court also issued a warrant for Park ...

More factory owned by South Korean battery maker Aricell in Hwaseong. The fire broke out at battery manufacturer Aricell’s plant at around 10:30 a.m. local time on Monday. Local fire officials ...

An explosion at Aricell’s lithium metal battery factory in Hwaseong city in South Korea killed 23 workers in late June 2024. Most of the dead were low paid and undocumented female migrant workers from ...

South Korea Halts Battery Maker's Operations as It Probes Deadly Blaze By Hyunsu Yim and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean authorities ordered a halt on Wednesday to the operations of a ...

The fire on Monday tore through the Aricell plant in Hwaseong city, a major industrial cluster about 90 minutes southwest of capital Seoul. The blaze produced toxic smoke inside the warehouse that ...