Water Purifier Scandal

Controversy is raging over Coway water purifiers where nickel compounds were found.
Controversy is raging over Coway water purifiers where nickel compounds were found.

 

Kim Dong-hyun CEO of Coway
Kim Dong-hyun CEO of Coway

 

Controversy is raging over Coway water purifiers where nickel compounds were found. Coway’s repeated apologies and compensation proposals are failing to stop the victims from taking a legal action.  

“Over 3,000 victims gathered together at an online Naver café in two days since the café was opened on the day when Coway broke the news that nickel compounds were found in its water purifiers,” said the Coway victims in a press release. “We will prepare to file a law suit against the company by forming alliance with the Group to Cope with the Coway Case made up of 1,200 members.”     

Consumers claiming to be the victims of the case are now receiving legal advice to bring a civil action against the company

Earlier, Coway announced that coating on internal parts of some of its ice-making water purifiers installed from April 2014 to late last year wore off, mixing water and ice with impurities such as nickel. Coway has decided to withdraw all controversial ice-making water purifier models regardless of the time of their sales and refund full rental fees to consumers.      

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