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▲ Joint investigation of a fire​​​​ in the underground parking lot of Cheongna Apartment in Incheon [연합뉴스]
It has been reported that 600 vehicle damage coverage (car insurance) claims have been submitted to insurance companies by car owners who suffered damage from an electric vehicle fire that occurred in an apartment building in Incheon.

According to the non-life insurance industry on the 11th, the total number of claims for car insurance from car owners who suffered a fire​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​or major damage from an electric car fire that occurred in the first parking lot of Cheongna Apartment in Incheon on the 1st. it is almost 600.

Vehicle insurance compensates for damage that occurs directly to a vehicle as a result of an accident during the ownership, use or maintenance of the vehicle, up to the sum insured.

In fact, it was found that about 300 claims for auto processing were received from Insurance Company A, and about 70 claims were received from Company B, another insurance company.

As a result of the operation of the fire department’s field damage reception center, the number of damaged vehicles was 880, including 42 completely burned, 45 partially burned, and 793 damaged, and the insurance claims are expected to increase further.

Insurance companies are expected to first receive applications for car damage insurance from owners of damaged cars, pay the insurance money, and then start submitting claims for compensation based on liability.

The targets are likely to be vehicle manufacturers, battery manufacturers, car owners, apartment management offices, etc.

▲Korea Tae-Jun Park, who participated in the men’s 58kg weight class quarterfinals in Taekwondo at the Paris 2024 Olympics, happy after winning against Syrian Rabe in France. [연합뉴스]
Park Tae-jun, the promising star of Korean men’s taekwondo, won an Olympic gold medal for the first time in 16 years as a Korean athlete.

Park Tae-jun, ranked 5th in the world, won by injury withdrawal Gasim Magomedov of Azerbaijan in the men’s 58 kg taekwondo final at the Paris 2024 Olympics held at the Grand Palais in Paris, France on the 7th local time.

With this, Taejun Park became the first Olympic gold medalist in this weight class.

‘Taekwondo star’ Lee Dae-hoon, the coach of Daejeon City Hall, won a silver medal at the London Olympics in 2012, which was a previous achievement.

Korea, which failed to win gold for the first time in its history at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, regained some of its pride as a fallen Taekwondo nation with Park Tae-jun’s gold medal.

It has been 16 years since a male Korean athlete won a gold medal.

Taejun Park stood on top of the podium for the first time since Taejin Son and Dongmin Cha at the 2008 Beijing Games.

For Park Tae-jun, who was first selected as a member of the 2022 national team while attending Hanseong High School, these Paris Games will be his first Olympics.

At the Olympic trials last February, he beat Jang Jun, ranked third in the world, and won a ticket to Paris.

▲ An electric vehicle that caught fire while in motion [연합뉴스]
The Mercedes-Benz electric car that recently caught fire in the underground car park of a large apartment building in Incheon has been confirmed to have been fitted with a product from Chinese electric vehicle battery manufacturer Farasis Energy.

According to the Ministry of Lands, Infrastructure and Transport and the battery industry, the battery cell of the Mercedes-Benz EQE sedan caught fire in the first parking lot of an apartment building in Cheongna International Town, Seo -to, Incheon, received on the morning of the 1st due to China’s Parasys.

The Mercedes EQE was also equipped with products from CATL China, the world’s No. 1 battery manufacturer, but it was confirmed that the vehicle involved in this accident was equipped with products from Parasys.

This battery is a nickel, cobalt, manganese (NCM) type, and the exact model name is unknown.

Founded in 2009, Parasys recorded sales of $2.32 billion (approximately KRW 3.18 trillion, market share of 1.8%) and shipments of 15GWh (gigawatt hours) last year, ranking 10th in the world in terms of both sales and shipments.

In 2018, it signed a 10-year battery order contract with Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz, and in 2020, Mercedes-Benz spent 900 million yuan to acquire about 3% of Parasys shares and began co- development of batteries.

However, Parasys battery products have been recalled in China due to fire hazards.

In March 2021, China’s state-owned Beijing Automobile Group (BAIC) recalled 31,963 electric vehicles with Parasys batteries, citing the battery’s ‘fire potential in certain environments.’

At that time, Parasys acknowledged the defect and covered all recall costs.