Comments on: Report: South Korea man dies in cell phone blast

Victim had a phone with a melted battery in his shirt pocket.

[make_or_break]

Gotta LOVE those Li-ion batteries

Who needs black powder or C4 when we have Li-ion packs everywhere?

[make_or_break]

Gotta LOVE those Li-ion batteries

Who needs black powder or C4 when we have Li-ion packs everywhere?

[Clownzilla]

Interesting......

I wonder if this gets him out of his cell phone contract?

[Clownzilla]

Interesting......

I wonder if this gets him out of his cell phone contract?

[juangault]

I doubt it.

This report is BS

[dirty55409]

explain why it's bs

why do you think it's BS? batteries can explode

[juangault]

I doubt it.

This report is BS

[dirty55409]

explain why it's bs

why do you think it's BS? batteries can explode

[ihk88]

man dies from cell phone

korean news agency reported this was fabrication. this was false report

[ihk88]

man dies from cell phone

korean news agency reported this was fabrication. this was false report

[PB G4]

Further reporting on this - not the case

Engadget had a bit more on this - the original story has been discredited with
reporting noting that the injuries were much too severe to be attributed to a
battery explosion.

[PB G4]

Further reporting on this - not the case

Engadget had a bit more on this - the original story has been discredited with
reporting noting that the injuries were much too severe to be attributed to a
battery explosion.

[savingpvtbryan]

Killer Was Co-Worker, Not Phone Battery

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2007/11/123_14696.html
By Cho Jin-seo
Staff Reporter

A phone battery may catch fire. But it cannot kill a man who's already dead.

A co-worker confessed that it was him, not the mobile phone, that killed a 33-year-old man who was found lying dead with a burnt mobile phone in his shirt pocket.


Kwon, 58, said on Thursday night that he hit Seo, 33, while driving his excavator backward at a stone quarry in Cheongwon, North Chungcheong Province, the police said. The phone was on fire when he found Seo lying down on the ground, and he was too afraid to say about what had happened, the police said.

"I was moving the excavator and Seo was suddently out of my sight. I ran out and saw he was lying down bleeding and his cloths on fire,'' Kwon was quoted as saying by the police. ``All these happened in a moment, and I was too afraid about the accident. So I lied that the battery exploded and killed Seo."

Seo was found dead Wednesday morning at a stone quarry in Cheongwon, North Chungcheong Province, with a severely burnt mobile phone in his shirt pocket and with his chest burnt and ribs fractured. Police initially suspected that the battery damaged his heart and lungs when it exploded, leading to his death.

A number of Korean and foreign newspapers incautiously reported that the phone explosion killed the man, even though LG Electronics, the manufacturer of the phone, flately denied such a possiblity, given that the lithium-ion polymer battery is not prone to explosion.

Thursday's autopsy found that Seo's body had bruises and factures all over his chest, arms, back and a finger, the police coroner said _ a damage too dispersed to be believed to be caused by a single mobile phone explosion.

Lithium-ion polymer batteries used in mobile phones can catch fire by external forces but they hardly explode like a bomb, experts say. Even before the police's announcement, suspicions have been raised that other forces may have killed Seo resulting in the battery damage, because the phone appeared to be still in one piece.

It is not immediately known whether LG is to sue the newspapers and Internet news agencies that hastily blamed the firm for the man's death.

[savingpvtbryan]

Killer Was Co-Worker, Not Phone Battery

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2007/11/123_14696.html
By Cho Jin-seo
Staff Reporter

A phone battery may catch fire. But it cannot kill a man who's already dead.

A co-worker confessed that it was him, not the mobile phone, that killed a 33-year-old man who was found lying dead with a burnt mobile phone in his shirt pocket.


Kwon, 58, said on Thursday night that he hit Seo, 33, while driving his excavator backward at a stone quarry in Cheongwon, North Chungcheong Province, the police said. The phone was on fire when he found Seo lying down on the ground, and he was too afraid to say about what had happened, the police said.

"I was moving the excavator and Seo was suddently out of my sight. I ran out and saw he was lying down bleeding and his cloths on fire,'' Kwon was quoted as saying by the police. ``All these happened in a moment, and I was too afraid about the accident. So I lied that the battery exploded and killed Seo."

Seo was found dead Wednesday morning at a stone quarry in Cheongwon, North Chungcheong Province, with a severely burnt mobile phone in his shirt pocket and with his chest burnt and ribs fractured. Police initially suspected that the battery damaged his heart and lungs when it exploded, leading to his death.

A number of Korean and foreign newspapers incautiously reported that the phone explosion killed the man, even though LG Electronics, the manufacturer of the phone, flately denied such a possiblity, given that the lithium-ion polymer battery is not prone to explosion.

Thursday's autopsy found that Seo's body had bruises and factures all over his chest, arms, back and a finger, the police coroner said _ a damage too dispersed to be believed to be caused by a single mobile phone explosion.

Lithium-ion polymer batteries used in mobile phones can catch fire by external forces but they hardly explode like a bomb, experts say. Even before the police's announcement, suspicions have been raised that other forces may have killed Seo resulting in the battery damage, because the phone appeared to be still in one piece.

It is not immediately known whether LG is to sue the newspapers and Internet news agencies that hastily blamed the firm for the man's death.