re: “Oh no! You mean to tell me I can no longer purchase those POS LG appliances?”
How do you confuse France for South Korea?
Per wiki: LG Corporation, formerly Lucky-Goldstar, is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation. It is the fourth-largest chaebol in South Korea. It is headquartered in the LG Twin Towers building in Yeouido-dong, Yeongdeungpo District, Seoul. LG makes electronics, chemicals, and telecom products and operates subsidiaries such as LG Electronics, Zenith, LG Display, LG Uplus, LG Innotek and LG Chem in over 80 countries.
Easy. I have owned a number of LG appliances, each of which were returned to the retailer due to ongoing defects. I, at that time, was fully aware of the origin of the manufacturer as being KOR. My error.