{"id":26784,"date":"2018-12-24T19:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T19:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26784"},"modified":"2018-12-24T19:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T19:22:21","slug":"bmw-hit-by-10-million-fine-over-engine-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26784","title":{"rendered":"BMW hit by $10 million fine over engine fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Seoul, South Korea (CNN Business)<\/cite>South Korea&#8217;s government is fining BMW $10 million over its handling of a spate of engine fires in the country \u2014 and the automaker&#8217;s problems don&#8217;t end there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said Monday that as well as imposing the 11.2 billion won ($9.9 million) fine, it will refer the case to prosecutors to decide whether criminal charges are necessary.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">BMW&#8217;s (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=BMWYY\" target=\"_blank\">BMWYY<\/a>) crisis in South Korea <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/14\/news\/companies\/bmw-korea-fire-recall\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">erupted over the summer<\/a> as dozens of reports came in of its vehicles bursting into flames. The German automaker said the fires were the result of a problem with the cars&#8217; exhaust systems and began checking vehicles that could be at risk. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul, South Korea (CNN Business)South Korea&#8217;s government is fining BMW $10 million over its handling of a spate of engine fires in the country \u2014 and the automaker&#8217;s problems don&#8217;t end there.The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said Monday that as well as imposing the 11.2 billion won ($9.9 million) fine, it will refer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}