SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Friday Washington’s steps to impose trade barriers against South Korean washers could give adverse impact on U.S. consumers, saying such changes may also result in the delay of its on-going factory construction in Tennessee. The statement came as the U.S. International Trade Commission determined earlier [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean washers topped product reviews by major U.S. consumer evaluators, industry watchers said Thursday, as Washington’s trade commission moves to take protectionist steps. Earlier this month, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) determined that products made by Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are exerting an adverse [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. tech manufacturer Whirlpool Corp. has demanded a punitive tariff of 50 percent on South Korean firms’ washers, government sources said Wednesday. According to South Korea’s trade ministry, Whirlpool submitted the demand to the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), which earlier determined that Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s latest aggressive marketing tactic against rival LG Electronics Co. in the high-end TV field appears to be part of its efforts to get ahead in the consumer electronics sector. Samsung Electronics has been at the forefront of liquid crystal display (LCD) TV technology that has helped [...]
Visitors to Dongdaemun Design Plaza from September 21 through 27 will get to take a look at toilets of the future. (Image: UNIST) ULSAN, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Visitors to Dongdaemun Design Plaza from September 21 through 27 will get to take a look at toilets of the future. Named Walden 1.0 and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – There are no losers, only winners, in the first round of the AI speaker confrontation between Kakao and Naver, as pre-sales of each tech company’s flagship product were effectively over minutes after they began. Pre-sales of the Kakao Mini started on September 18 and lasted only 38 minutes. The [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc.’s high-end organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV products have won positive responses from American and European consumer magazines, industry sources said Monday. The LG OLEDB7V model, a 65-inch OLED UHD TV, made by the South Korean home appliance giant has topped evaluations conducted by leading consumer magazines [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean home appliance giants Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. will work together to deal with a U.S. safeguard probe of their washing machines, sources said Thursday. In June, the U.S. government started a safeguard investigation into foreign washers, mostly made by South Korean companies, at the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it agreed to join U.S. 20th Century Fox and Japan-based Panasonic Corp. to expand the ecosystem for the High Dynamic Range (HDR) 10 Plus technology. The South Korean tech giant said the companies agreed to establish an alliance for the HDR 10 Plus technology. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giant LG Electronics Inc. said Friday it will invest US$250 million to build a washer factory in the U.S. The construction of the factory in Tennessee is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2019, with an annual production capacity of 1 million units. [...]