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IT Home reported on August 23 that according to CCTV News, on the morning of August 23, local time, the "Hwaseong Battery Factory Fire" accident investigation team composed of the South Korean police and the labor department released the results of the accident investigation. The results of the investigation showed that the company involved (Aricell) had been using deceptive methods such as swapping test products to pass safety inspections since it began to provide relevant battery products to the South Korean military in 2021. The production process was shoddy and poorly managed, and eventually the defective battery products caught fire and caused a tragedy.

South Korean police investigations found that since 2021, when the company involved provided relevant products to the South Korean military, it had been manipulating test data by separately manufacturing a batch of battery swapping test products in order to pass the South Korean military's safety inspections. The South Korean military discovered problems such as the company falsifying product descriptions during the inspection of the purchased batches in April this year, and determined that the company's related batches of products did not meet national defense standards. Since then, the company's product defect rate has increased significantly during the rush to complete the work, and eventually a defective product caught fire and caused an accident.

The South Korean police have now launched an investigation into the heads of the companies involved, investigating the negligence of company managers and pursuing subsequent accountability.

According to previous reports by IT Home, at around 10:30 am local time on June 24, a battery fire broke out in a lithium battery manufacturing plant in Hwaseong City, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, causing a serious fire.

Surveillance video at the scene showed that when the battery products were found smoking and catching fire, the on-site employees tried to use fire extinguishers to put out the fire, but the explosive battery combustion caused thick smoke in the factory, and the fire quickly spread out of control, and the on-site employees also lost the best opportunity to escape.

Eventually, more than 35,000 lithium batteries piled up in the factory burned out. After the fire lasted for more than 5 hours, the main fire was finally extinguished. Firefighters found more than 20 charred bodies after entering the scene. The accident eventually resulted in the death of 23 people, including 17 Chinese workers, and 8 others were injured.