News Analysis 11

NATIONAL - by Korea Herald
Friday November 30, 2007

Title : Explosion causes concern over mobile phone safety

This story is about a man who died by his exploded cell phone. Anxiety over the safety of cell phones is rising after news spread that a quarry worker was killed after his phone supposedly exploded on Wednesday. A 33-year-old man, who is only identified by his surname Suh, was found dead at a quarry site in North Chungcheong Province, where he was working as a hydraulic shovel operator. Maybe this incident is the first cell phone explosion in Korea. His cell phone made by LG Electronics Inc., according to doctor Kim Hoon's saying, the death was most likely due to cell phone explosion "There was a wound on his left chest that almost looked like a burn and we also saw symptoms of hemorrhage from the lungs as some of his ribs and spines were broken," he told local media.

I choose this article because this incident was so shocking to me. I saw this situation at the first.

My opinion on this article, it is so awful to me because almost of people who live in Korea have cell phone include elementary students even preschool students, and also they use them very often. Also they have them anywhere. When they are sleeping, eating, walking and so on. If the situation happen when someone sleep and put the cell phone beside of the person. I don't want to think about next situation. We don't know exact causes yet, but I think that maybe all faults are only cell phone electronic company. I have experience about that. Three years ago, my cell phone's battery became swollen, so I called service center. The center told me "It is the serious problem, so you have to come as soon as possible also you never use your a filling machine". In my case, the problem was the filling machine. It was faulty in my case. I changed my filling machine after I visited there. I hope that this situation never happen.

Link : http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/