SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. has teamed up with a local firm to develop smart home appliances that utilize sleep analytics technology. The home appliance maker said Monday it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Asleep, a sleep tracking software startup, to work together in the field of sleep technology. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Thursday it had selected Viva Magenta as a new color option for its Dios Objet Collection MoodUp, a refrigerator that enables users to change the color of the appliance via a smartphone app. Customers will be able to add Viva Magenta to color options for [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc.’ OLED evo TV was named as the best TV of the year by many renowned overseas media. According to the global home appliance giant, the Britain’s Tech Advisor selected the LG OLED evo (C2 series) as this year’s best TV. Another British media outlet, TechRadar, also [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Thursday it is distributing common-use braille stickers to customers for free as a way to enhance home appliance accessibility. Starting last year, the company has developed and distributed dedicated braille stickers for about 20 products for free. This time, it developed a common braille sticker [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. on Friday reported record high sales backed by its electric vehicle (EV) components business but also experienced a big drop in net income in the third quarter on sluggish demand for consumer electronics amid high inflation and recession fears. The South Korean tech company reported in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. is speeding up efforts to gain a stronger foothold in the logistics robot market on the back of its next-generation self-driving logistics robot, CLOi CarryBot. The tech giant recently announced that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with artificial intelligence (AI) startup FASSTO to promote [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. announced that it has developed new technology that prevents fires caused by electric arcs and signed an agreement with the Korea Electronics Technology Institute on Wednesday to jointly verify and standardize the technology. Arcs can be caused by partial severance of an electric cable, a loose [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Friday its preliminary third-quarter operating profit jumped around 25 percent from a year earlier. The tech company said its profit for the July-September period was predicted to come in at 746.6 billion won (US$529 million), up 25.1 percent from 540.7 billion won from the year-ago [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday it will exhibit an artwork made by recycling an OLED TV packaging box at the Nike Art Gallery in Lagos, Nigeria by the end of this year. The artwork was created in collaboration with the African climate change response NGO Solution 17 and a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Sunday it has showcased the world’s largest organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV at the latest trade show in the U.S. in a bid to target the premium TV market in North America. LG Electronics unveiled the lineup of its 97-inch OLED TV, or the OLED [...]