LG has launched a repair program for some of its OLED TVs sold in South Korea since 2016, Yonhap News reports. The issue is related to components on TVs’ power boards, which LG said could cause a current surge leading to possible overheating as performance degrades over time. A company spokesperson said the problem only appears to be affecting TVs sold in South Korea at the moment, but added that LG is “investigating other markets” for possible problems.
“The overheating problem occurred only on very few models out of the total that used the component, but we will provide free component exchanges for all of them for customer safety,” LG said in a statement, ZDNet reports. A total of around 60,000 televisions are believed to be affected, and LG has already exchanged affected components in 22,000 of the units.
In response to a query from The edge, LG said the repair program was not an official recall. “No government agency or consumer protection agency requires this,” the spokesperson said. “LG in Korea is doing this voluntarily as a preventive measure before the boards experience problems.”
