SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – As a gray haze caused by fine dust continues to blanket South Korea, home appliance companies are enjoying booming sales with some companies running additional production lines over the weekend. Growing public concern over the health effects of fine dust and air pollution in the country are turning air [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc.’s latest flagship smartphone G6 has drawn a bigger-than-expected market response in South Korea, industry data showed Wednesday, with its sales expected to fare well down the road. According to the data compiled by industry tracker ATLAS Research & Consulting, the LG G6 powered by South Korea’s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics announced Thursday the launch of a new OLED TV series to be added to its “Signature” lineup of household appliances. The new LG Signature 4K OLED W series boasts an OLED panel that is only 4 millimeters thick. The “W” stands for wallpaper, and refers to the TV’s new [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A shift in color trends for home appliances is playing out as the consumer electronics industry rushes to introduce increasingly dark toned products in the market. According to industry watchers, Korean tech giants Samsung and LG are launching new refrigerator and washing machines in black or metallic hues. Samsung [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – “Thinner” and “lighter” have long been the mantra for laptop manufacturers. The focus is now shifting to battery power in Korea, with two of the country’s largest laptop makers – Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics – highlighting the battery capacity of their latest computers. Samsung added last month a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc.’s upcoming G6 smartphones will come with Google Inc. voice assistant service, industry sources said Thursday, as the South Korean company struggles to compete against its rivals. LG’s new flagship models — to be unveiled next month — will carry the U.S. tech giant’s artificial intelligence (AI) [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. said Thursday it will unveil its next flagship smartphone, the G6, at an annual technology fair in Spain next month, as it struggles to revive its money-losing smartphone business. In a teaser video released earlier in the day on its YouTube and Facebook accounts, LG hinted [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. forecast Friday that it is likely to have returned to the red in the fourth quarter of last year, indicating that its money-losing smartphone business appears to have continued to crumble. LG said it expects an operating loss of 35.3 billion won (US$29.6 million) for the [...]
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean home appliance maker LG Electronics Inc. showed its new lineup of flagship organic light-emitting diode (OLED) televisions at an annual U.S. trade show Wednesday, as it seeks to get a bigger slice of the U.S. market for next-generation TVs. The sleek and razor-thin 77-inch TV, displayed [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – If there is one thing that LG Electronics can boast of with its latest flagship smartphone, the V20, it is the phone’s audio performance, allowing users to play high-resolution sound files through its ambitious Quad DAC (digital to analog converter), and record with its built-in high-quality microphone. LG’s recent [...]