{"id":37186,"date":"2026-06-01T07:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/37186\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T07:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:45:06","slug":"five-dead-after-explosion-at-south-korean-aerospace-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/37186\/","title":{"rendered":"Five dead after explosion at South Korean Aerospace plant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five people have died, and two others were injured on Monday after an explosion and fire on a South Korean<\/a> production line for rocket propellant at a factory operated by Hanwha Aerospace in the city of Daejeon, officials said.<\/p>\n

The two survivors, including one who was badly burned, had escaped from the facility themselves, a fire official told a briefing.<\/p>\n

“Authorities have yet to identify the victims because their bodies were severely damaged,” a health official told the same briefing.<\/p>\n

A fire official said that an explosion<\/a> had triggered the blaze, though the cause of the blast was still being investigated.<\/p>\n

Shares in Hanwha Aerospace fell 2.8% in afternoon trade, while the holding company Hanwha Corp saw its shares drop 3.4%.<\/p>\n

The blast appeared to have occurred while water was being used to clean explosive material from tools making rocket propellant, a Hanwha official told a company briefing.<\/p>\n

“We bow our heads in apology to the victims and their bereaved families,” said Chief Executive Officer Son Jae-il, pledging to cooperate fully with authorities to determine the cause of the accident.<\/p>\n

The five dead included two temporary workers in their 20s, and all were employed by Hanwha, the company said.<\/p>\n

Authorities were unable to obtain the factory’s layout since it is protected under national security laws, an official said at an earlier briefing.<\/p>\n

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called for the mobilization of all available resources to respond to the accident and for an investigation, his office said in a text message to reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five people have died, and two others were injured on Monday after an explosion and fire on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18167,1322,22960,171,33],"class_list":["post-37186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-korea","tag-death","tag-explosion","tag-factory","tag-korean","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}