Appliances and auto parts lift LG Electronics to record Q2

LG Electronics reported Thursday an operating profit of 1.58 trillion won ($1.1 billion) for the second quarter, up 147 percent from a year earlier, on revenue of 23.83 trillion won. Both are second-quarter records. They match the preliminary numbers the company put out on July 7 to within a few billion won. What Thursday's disclosure added was the breakdown by division. Home appliances cleared 7 trillion won in quarterly revenue for the first time, at 7.08 trillion won, and earned 685.9 billion