Comment by testing22321
18 hours ago
Strange this has never been reported to happen elsewhere in the world with teslas.
Is there something different about South Korean cars?
18 hours ago
Strange this has never been reported to happen elsewhere in the world with teslas.
Is there something different about South Korean cars?
My totally uninformed guess is a defective run of batteries from gigafactory shanghai that landed in SK market next door
... or something different about Korean administration which makes it more immune to corruption and allows it to report effectively batteries failures ?
Surely you can understand that the option that Tesla has quietly bribed every country in the world that its vehicles are bought at is not very likely.
I don't think it is happening in this case.
The idea that a trillion dollar corporation has sufficient lobbyists/PR people in western countries to cover up bad news up to a certain level seems reasonable.
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Lmao of course they bribed every country on earth except for the “immune” one known for chaebols like Samsung, Hyundai and LG
Glad someone else mentioned it. I was going to say that out of most developed nations, Korea has to be in or near the top spot for corruption. All countries have their flavor of corruption but the chaebol structure is unique and anecdotally it feels like every leader of Korea has eventually been connected to one of the chaebols.
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Indeed, the idea that the Republic of Samsung would be immune from corruption is something else.
Their president tried to do martial law and those that had the responsibility to stop it, actually stopped it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_South_Korean_martial_law_...