SEOUL, Sep. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Display will hold a 2014 Future Display Idea contest named “Imagine Your Display.” Anyone who attends universities or graduate schools with groundbreaking ideas can apply for the contest until November 9. A first prize winner and two runner-ups will be announced at the beginning of December, winning 3 [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, announced today that it has started mass production of the world’s first circular Plastic OLED (P-OLED) display. The cutting-edge display will be used for the LG G Watch R to be showcased at IFA 2014 in Berlin, opening a [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Heavy Industries stares a strike in the face for the first time in 20 years. The labor union of Hyundai Heavy Industries refused to negotiate with the management of the company in the 35th negotiation session on September 1. The union demanded a 132,013 won, or 6.51 percent, increase [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics is reviewing an idea of merging Samsung Medison, an unlisted medical equipment maker. In a regulatory filing on September 2, Samsung Electronics said, “We are currently considering whether to pushing forward with a merger with Samsung Medison. We will disclose later as soon as detailed decisions are made.” The electronic [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean LED tech firm Seeluce gears up to advance into the value-added LED application market armed with patented technology producing the world’s largest flexible printed circuit boards (PCBs). Its flexible lighting module (FLM) technology is estimated as a next-generation technology overcoming the limitations of the existing rigid PCB and flexible [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics will showcase the world’s largest 105-inch bendable Ultra HD TV at the IFA Berlin (International Radio Exhibition Berlin) to be open on September 5 under the theme of “The Power of the Curve.” The number of TVs to be on display at the trade show will be 120 and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A mid-sized Korean enterprise with an automation solution to collect and classify garbage has recently succeeded in signing a deal to install a large-scale system in China. Tongzhou District of Beijing is a site where the Chinese government is building a new residential “low-carbon” city. Envac said on August 25 that it [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – As controversies continue over the harmful chemical materials in wet tissues, the Korean government has made a countermeasure to reinforce its safety management by categorizing it as a cosmetic product. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced on Aug. 19 that it would include wet tissues for sanitation purpose [...]
CHANDLER, Ariz., Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Isola Group S.à r.l., a market leader in copper-clad laminates and dielectric prepreg materials used to fabricate advanced multilayer printed circuit boards (PCBs), today announced a major qualification win in partnership with KSG Leiterplatten GmbH and InnoSenT GmbH. The joint conversion project among the three companies successfully tailored the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the sluggish petrochemical market due to low global economic growth and low demand from China, LG Chem plans to overcome the situation with a two-track strategy of reinforcing technology-based business and developing new materials. LG Chem, a leading electric vehicle battery maker, made the two-track business plan to [...]