SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday its monthslong probe into what caused some Galaxy Note 7 smartphones to catch fire has established that faulty batteries were the main problem, not the smartphone’s hardware design or software. “Our investigation, as well as investigations completed by three independent industry organizations, concluded that [...]
ULSAN, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Ulsan is set to become a new R&D hub for South Korea’s battery industry. According to city officials on Wednesday, construction of UNIST’s Battery R&D Center will wrap up in March. The 17.7-billion-won ($15 million) center was funded by both UNIST (2.7 billion won) and the government (15 billion [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it will update the software in South Korea to prevent owners of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphones from charging beyond 15 percent from next Monday, with about 94 percent of the devices sold at home retrieved. In a brief statement, Samsung said it will [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s industrial standardization bureau said Wednesday it is mulling over an investigation into Apple Inc.’s iPhone handsets, which randomly shut down despite battery remaining. The Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) said it is looking into the matter as the iPhone 6S battery problem could potentially be [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A joint research team from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology and Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology have developed solar cells with better life and efficiency, using graphene – a near-transparent, high electricity conductive carbon allotrope, often used in electronic devices such as smartphone touchscreens. The new [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung has temporarily halted the production of its latest phablet amidst media reports of Galaxy Note 7 devices catching fire despite having been replaced, leaving consumers wondering if the flaw is in the phone itself instead of the battery. Following reports of Note 7s catching fire soon after the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of South Korean scientists has developed new battery material, the science ministry said Monday, in what could bring significant changes to mobile devices and electronic cars. The team led by Kang Jeong-ku of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) discovered a hybrid type of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Owners of Samsung smartphones are still anxious despite the company’s quick recall measures as two additional phablets were found to have caught on fire. One of the incidents took place in Korea on October 1 at a home in Seoul, the same day that Samsung resumed sales of its [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s top chemical firm, said Thursday it has broken ground for a plant in Poland for electric vehicle batteries, hoping to become a leading EV battery supplier to European carmakers. The EV battery plant in Wroclaw, southwestern Poland, will cost 400 billion won (US$359 million), [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Faraday Future, a Silicon Valley-based electric vehicle (EV) maker, said Tuesday that it has picked LG Chem Ltd, a South Korean electric vehicle (EV) battery maker, as its official business partner. In a press release posted on its website, Faraday Future said it collaborated with LG Chem on the [...]