SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — After a brief pause, Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are set to intensify their tech battle in TVs with their latest and cutting-edge technologies, industry insiders said Wednesday. Samsung and LG were the two main players anchoring South Korea at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2020, which [...]
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giant LG Electronics Inc. eyes to cement its premium image in the U.S. TV market with OLED and 8K TV sets, the company’s officials have said. LG’s TV products — from roll-down TVs to very thin wall-mounted TVs — caught the eyes of attendees at [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — New technology for an OLED mask that fits closely to the face has been developed by a South Korean research team. A joint research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Seoul National University Bundang Hospital said Wednesday that it has developed a thin [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s two electronics giant once again clashed over 8K television technology Tuesday in attempt to get an early lead in the premium segment still in a nascent stage. 8K refers to the highest-resolution standard for content creation, which offers four times the number of pixels of a 4K [...]
BERLIN, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Consumers who want the best picture quality TVs available now will look to QLED models by Samsung Electronics and OLED TVs by LG Electronics, and they are likely to see 8K next to a price tag of several thousand dollars. 8K refers to the highest-resolution standard for content creation, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s largest chemical company, said Wednesday it will cooperate with Universal Display Corp. (UDC), a U.S.-based display materials maker, to develop an advanced organic light-emitting diode (OLED) component. LG Chem said it signed a strategic partnership with UDC to co-develop an upgraded emissive layer, a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Display Co. said Friday it has completed the construction of a new OLED factory in China to start mass production of large screens for premium televisions. LG Display has invested about 5 trillion won (US$4.2 billion) to build the Guangzhou factory for the production of organic light-emitting diode [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co. has trimmed down production of liquid crystal displays (LCD) in response to worsening profits, seen as shifting its focus to a new type of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel, industry officials said Wednesday. The display making subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co. has cut LCD production at [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s OLED panel exports to Japan more than doubled to hit a record high last month, data showed Wednesday, bucking the trend of weakening global demand for displays. South Korea’s shipments of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels to Japan totaled US$13.2 million in June, skyrocketing 129.2 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Display Co. said Tuesday it will invest 3 trillion won (US$2.6 billion) in an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) facility in South Korea to expand its production capacity for premium panels. The Korean panel maker has spent 4.6 trillion won in the OLED factory in Paju, north of Seoul, [...]