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January 11, 2022
Samsung’s QD-OLED display certified by SGS
Samsung Display, the display panel maker arm of Samsung Electronics, said Monday its latest quantum-dot organic light emitting diode display technology was certified by evaluation services provider SGS. The QD-OLED, touted as the technology to support next-generation TV picture...
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January 11, 2022
Former Samsung patent head turns against tech giant
A former Samsung Electronics executive, who led patent prosecutions and litigations representing South Korea-based technology giant, was found to have turned against his previous employer with a pate...vember last year, according to a report by local media outlet Electronic Times. Before...
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January 11, 2022
LG battery arm vows to edge out Chinese rival
...xpected to offer 34 million new shares in an indicative range of 257,000 to 300,000 won per share. LG Chem, which wholly owns the battery arm, plans to offer 8.5 million existing shares in the same price range. Analysts have said the IPO could make the battery maker South Korea’s third most val...
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January 11, 2022
LG joins IBM Quantum Network
...im Byoung-hoon, chief technology officer and executive vice president of LG Electronics. Among Korean entities, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Sungkyunkwan University and Samsung have been part of the IBM Quantum Network. The partnership ups LG‘s groupwide pu...
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January 11, 2022
[NCSI] Samsung Fire & Marine, Lotte Homeshopping, Korea Post, Yakult gain customer satisfaction
Since its establishment in 1884, Korea Post stands as the country’s longest established government organization responsible for postal and financial services. The expansion of post-to-door delivery service has been at the core of enhancing customer convenience, the institution said. The service h...
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January 11, 2022
Chaebol groups sell shares in subsidiaries over strengthened intercompany trade measures
...LG Chem accounting for more than 70 percent of the company’s total revenue in 2019. Last month, Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong’s youngest sister Lee Seo-hyun sold half of her total 3.46 pe...er family to 19.09 percent from the previous 20.82 percent. Market insiders said ...
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January 11, 2022
Samsung’s 2021 profit soars on robust chips, smartphones business
Samsung Electronics logged an operating income of 51.57 trillion won ($42.89 billion) for 2021, up 43.3 percent from a year prior, as its businesses ranging from semiconductor chips to smartphones an... won by analysts in South Korea, according to data compiled by market intelligence firm...
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January 10, 2022
[Market Eye] Samsung-Hyundai auto chip alliance? It's more complicated than you think
Sitting on a cockpit mockup, Chung was briefed with Samsung CEO Han Jong-hee on its future infotainment system. “It is not an exaggeration that Samsung has really completed the full package to make an EV with the Harman acquisition, but Harman’s R&D for new products is not sh...
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January 07, 2022
[CES 2022] Samsung, SKT execs discuss partnership on 5G, AI, metaverse
SK Telecom CEO Ryu Young-sang and Samsung Electronics’ mobile business chief Roh Tae-moon discussed their potential partnership on a slew of tech areas, including 5G network, artificial intelligence and the metaverse, upon Ryu’s visit to Samsung’s exhibition booth at Consumer...
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January 07, 2022
Samsung says open to manufacturing OLED TVs
LAS VEGAS/SEOUL -- Samsung Electronics vice chairman and CEO Han Jong-hee told reporters on Wednesday that the doors for collaboration with panel supplier LG Display is “wide open” for its launch of ...rding the plan (for collaboration with LG), but we are open to all options.” The re...
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January 06, 2022
[CES 2022] Samsung unveils portable beam projector
LAS VEGAS -- Samsung Electronics on Tuesday unveiled a portable beam projector, the Freestyle, to overcome the physical constraints of TVs and bring screen experience everywhere. According to the South Korean tech giant, the Freestyle weighs just 830 grams and offers a minimal design tha...
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January 06, 2022
[CES 2022] Samsung rolls out new vision of sustainable innovation at CES
Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Han Jong-hee said at the world’s largest tech show CES 2022 that the company’s new sustainable technologies would become part of the consumer experience. Green technology will enhance Samsung products’ life cycles...
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January 06, 2022
[CES 2022] Samsung working on asymmetrical foldable display for flip smartphone
LAS VEGAS -- Samsung Display unveiled an asymmetrical foldable display for flip smartphones at a private media showcase held at Encore in Las Vegas. During the tour, the company also introduced doub...d, an official slid down a translucent plastic cover, which covered the exposed area pe...
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January 05, 2022
[CES 2022] Samsung’s virtual housekeeper at your service
Samsung Electronics’ artificial humans unveiled virtually last year might return as a personal assistant and housekeeper at CES 2022. According to the South Korean tech giant Monday, it will unveil ...ight provide an opportunity for Samsung Electronics to validate their market...
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January 05, 2022
[CES 2022] LG adds larger, smaller OLED TVs for 2022, hails newcomers
...ark said. “More TV set makers’ OLED adoption is a testament that OLED panels have won consumer trust, and that LG has made the right decision (to focus on OLED TVs).” As for industry rumors that Samsung Electronics might soon start manufacturing OLED TVs, Park said it would lead to...
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January 05, 2022
In face of omicron scare, Korean tech firms make bigger presence at CES
...he annual show that has become the largest tech event in the world. Following is a sneak peek of major Korean companies’ exhibition themes designed to steal the limelight of this year’s show. Samsung Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest smartphone and home applian...
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January 04, 2022
[EXCLUSIVE] In Year of Tiger, Samsung lays out 'Tiger' strategy to beat Apple
LAS VEGAS -- In the Year of the Water Tiger, Samsung Electronics has set out its own “Tiger” strategy to seek a more aggressive push in the North American market and narrow its gap with Apple in the ...point Research data showed. In India, the world’s second-largest smartphone market ...
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January 04, 2022
China seems to be Samsung chief’s next destination
Speculation is growing that Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong may go on a work trip later this month possibly to China where the Korean tech giant is struggling to elevate smartphone and... been appearing in court hearings every Thursday regarding the controversial merger dea...
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January 04, 2022
Marking best year, Korean tech giants set sight on quality beyond compare
...heir electronics and semiconductor chip businesses are projected to yield the highest revenue for 2021, in their respective New Year’s addresses. Fierce competition on a global scale still leaves Samsung Electronics, one of the world’s leading electronics goods makers and chipmakers,...
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January 04, 2022
[CES 2022] Samsung Galaxy S21 FE makes debut at CES
LAS VEGAS – Samsung Electronics on Monday unveiled the latest Galaxy S21 FE 5G, a budget version of its flagship Galaxy S21, at the Consumer Electronics Show 2022 held in Sin City. Coming in four di...nutes. The protruding rectangular camera bump on the back could need some time gettin...