SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, the two pillars of Korea’s electronics industry, have displayed state-of-the-art communications technology and smart items at the World IT Show 2014, the trade show being held at Busan’s BEXCO Exhibition & Convention Center for four days between October 20 and 23. Samsung set up a large booth [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — In South Korea, Samsung Electronics is the most favored and sought-after company among Korean university grads. Reflecting their enthusiasm to work at Samsung, around 200,000 university students including retakers — and even third-time retakers — took the Samsung Aptitude Test (SSAT), a kind of entry test for Samsung Group, this year. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display and LG Display challenge each other at the 14th International Meeting on Information Display from October 14 to 16. Samsung’s keywords are “curved” and “flexible” while LG focuses on “Organic Light Emitting Diodes” and “touch” at the exhibition. In order to boast its technological prowess for curved and [...]
“Now, the online music market is shifting to a new paradigm of streaming radio. Meanwhile, Samsung with its deep pocket is spending fortunes in the name of an “innovative free music service,” which is in effect destroying the legitimate music streaming market that all the parties of the music industry took a decade to nurture. [...]
NUREMBERG, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) ― LG Electronics (LG) will give visitors to Chillventa 2014 their first look the company’s latest residential and commercial HVAC products as well as its renewable energy solutions. A biennial event taking place from October 14-16 at the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg in Germany, Chillventa is the premier European tradeshow for refrigeration, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The cost of mobile devices in South Korea is most expensive, ranking No. 1 among OECD countries. Congressman Mun Byeong-ho said that, based on data submitted by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, the average cost of cellular phone handsets in Korea took the first place in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – To meet the increasing global demand for TVs and other home appliances, Samsung Electronics is constructing a consumer electronics factory at the Saigon High-tech Park in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, a strategic move to take advantage of the cheap labor costs and bet on the swelling middle class consumer [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Chairman Park Yong-man of Doosan Group, most prominent “early adopter” among the nation’s CEOs, has drawn the Internet users’ interest this time again for his iPhone6 unboxing video posted on YouTube. Whenever new iPhone models come to market, Mr. Park famously showed off his unboxing demonstration — an intriguing [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) ― Looking to further expand its 4G LTE footprint in mobiles, LG Electronics (LG) today unveiled the LG F60, a stylish new smartphone that offers superior Quad-Core speed to run all of today’s hottest apps and LG’s premium UX features in a package designed for a global audience upgrading [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean smartphone market, once considered a “graveyard” of foreign brands, is showing signs of a sea change ahead. In time for the mobile phone handset retail structure improvement law taking effect from October 1, overseas phone brands such as Apple, Sony, and Huawei are getting ready to put [...]