LG's Laptop Battery Melts

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A laptop computer produced by a major Korean computer manufacturer was damaged Thursday due to an overheated battery.According to LG Electronics,a graduate student at Hanyang University in Seoul reported Friday that his laptop computer s rechargeable battery had melted.Then company immediately sent a representative to change the faulty part,LG Electronics said.The troubled computer hit the Korean market first in January last year and has been sold only on the domestic market only.LG announced that it was withdrawing the faulty computer model from Friday.but experts said the measure-without detailed preventive action-was no more that a makeshift tactic.This is the second incident involving an overheating battery.On Jan. 8, an LG laptop computer being used by a reporter suddenly exploded and burst into flames.Following the explosion,LG electronics,the PC body maker,and LG Chem, the battery manufacturer,teamed up with the Korea Electro-technology Research Institute KERI to find the exact cause of the explosion but failed.And promised to investigate more on the incident happened.