SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea took up nearly half of the global smart TV market in 2014, data showed Monday, with Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics being the only tech players to post a two-digit share. The combined market share held by the two came to 43.4 percent last year, with Samsung accounting for [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics‘ handsets emit less electromagnetic waves than Apple‘s iPhones, a research report showed Sunday, with the low-end Galaxy Mega smartphone being the No. 1 radiowave-safe product. According to the research conducted by market tracker Cnet in France, the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR), a measure of emission of electromagnetic fields, came [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics, South Korea’s leading home appliance maker, said Thursday it has rolled out its latest premium TV models in the United States, as part of efforts to grab a bigger share in the North America region. LG unveiled the Ultra OLED TV and Super Ultra HD TV before [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The head of Samsung Electronics‘ mobile division grabbed the title of the highest-paid executive in South Korea last year thanks to a hefty bonus for the division’s robust performance in 2013. Shin Jong-kyun topped the list of corporate executives’ annual salaries by getting paid 14.57 billion won (US$13.13 million) [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 tech giant, LG Electronics, said Sunday it will take “strong” action against sales of counterfeit G3 smartphones in China by joining forces with Beijing authorities. LG said the move came as a number of smartphone retailers in China are selling the fake G3 smartphones at a [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics, South Korea’s No. 2 tech giant, opened a new production base in Vietnam on Friday that will manufacture the company’s key products for exports, the company said. Located in Haiphong, a northern port city of the country, the 800,000-square-meter Vietnam Haiphong Campus will allow LG to produce price-competitive [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics, South Korea’s No. 2 tech firm, plans to roll out its latest LTE network-powered smartwatch in Korea. The LG Watch Urbane LTE comes with its own universal subscriber identity module (USIM) card that allows users to make phone calls without being paired with smartphones. It will be [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics, South Korea’s second-largest smartphone maker, said Thursday it will start selling its latest character smartphone in neighboring countries this week, before gradually expanding to the Middle East. The Aka phone comes with four different, detachable casings that each has its own personality, shown in digital eyes placed [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics has earned Certified Emission Reduction credits (CER) from its India operations, which correspond to about 7,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, approved by the UNFCCC. This is the first recognition for a home appliances company by the UNFCCC under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol. [...]
“The court will decide whether I’m responsible for the damage of Samsung washers. However, I am releasing the surveillance video to protect not only my honor of 40 years of washing machine development, but also the company’s reputation.” “There were many people around the electronics retail shop in Germany, and Samsung workers were looking on [...]