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The riots in South Africa are also increasing damage to our local businesses. Mobs also looted LG Electronics and then Samsung Electronics' warehouses.
Correspondent Ahn Sang-woo.
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is an LG Electronics factory in Durban Industrial Complex, a port city in southeastern South Africa that was burned down in riots.
The factory that invested more than 20 billion won was turned to ashes, and even finished products and materials stored in the warehouse were looted, resulting in tens of billions of won in damage.
[Lee Sang-min / LG Electronics employee: There were looting and arson at the workplace, which caused damage to production facilities and warehouses, but no casualties occurred.]
Samsung Electronics' logistics warehouses in Guajulu-Natal were also damaged by looting.
Even the security company and staff have fled after being chased by the mob, so we cannot even determine the exact extent of the damage.
The riots and looting have now spread to Johannesburg, South Africa's largest city, and the South African government has also deployed armed troops to suppress it, but to no avail.
[Shop owner: This is a disaster. It can't be called a shop. All goods have disappeared.]
Protests against the detention of former President Jacob Zuma on charges of corruption and fraud during his tenure in office began, but it is analyzed that it led to large-scale riots due to the extreme hardship and the gap between the rich and the poor due to COVID-19.
At least 72 people have been killed and more than 750 arrested in the riots so far.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that there are about 3,300 Koreans residing in South Africa and that there have been no casualties of Koreans so far.