{"id":48753,"date":"2026-06-01T12:32:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T06:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=48753"},"modified":"2026-06-01T12:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T06:48:04","slug":"explosion-kills-5-at-south-korean-aerospace-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/explosion-kills-5-at-south-korean-aerospace-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion kills 5 at South Korean aerospace plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>An explosion at a plant run by South Korean defence firm Hanwha Aerospace killed five people on Monday, local fire authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion was reported to authorities at around 11:00 am (0200 GMT) at Hanwha&#8217;s plant in Daejeon, about 150 kilometres south of Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>A representative of the Daejeon Fire Headquarters told AFP that five people have died and two others were injured, without providing further details.<\/p>\n<p>The blast is believed to have happened inside the factory according to authorities speaking with Yonhap news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Hanwha Aerospace is a major South Korean defence manufacturer which produces weapons, artillery systems and aerospace components.<\/p>\n<p>Its Daejeon facility focuses on research and development, including advanced weapons technologies and space-related systems.<\/p>\n<p>A Hanwha representative told AFP &#8220;the exact circumstances and extent of the damage have not yet been fully determined. The fire has not yet been completely extinguished&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>President Lee Jae Myung instructed officials to mobilise all available resources to bring the fire under control, his office said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion at a plant run by South Korean defence firm Hanwha Aerospace killed five people on Monday, local fire authorities said. The explosion was reported to authorities at around 11:00 am (0200 GMT) at Hanwha&#8217;s plant in Daejeon, about 150 kilometres south of Seoul. A representative of the Daejeon Fire Headquarters told AFP that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48757,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48753\/revisions\/48757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}