SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korean panel maker LG Display Co. said Friday it plans to invest 1.8 trillion won (US$1.56 billion) in a facility to tap deeper into the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) segment. Under the plan, the South Korean panel maker will build a new factory in Paju, north of Seoul, which [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc.’s organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV has received the best response from a U.S. consumer review magazine, industry sources said Monday. In the recent review by Consumer Reports, the 55-inch LG OLED TV, dubbed the 55EG9100, has received the top grade among other rival models surveyed in [...]
BEIJING, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Display Co., a South Korean maker of flat panels used in televisions and other products, said Wednesday that it will forge cooperation with Chinese TV makers to expand sales of larger organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panels. Eddie Yeo, president of LG Display’s OLED business division, made the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The industry ministry of Korea announced that it would reinforce its support for software-convergence components by selecting 20 core parts to be embedded in wearable devices or next generation displays. On August 25, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy selected the 20 core parts essential for the advancement of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday it will promote the Super Ultra HD TV lineup for this year while expanding available models for organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TVs. The company, ranked No. 2 at home and a rival to Samsung Electronics in home appliances, said it plans to market 11 [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Chem., Ltd., the world’s largest OLED light panel manufacturer, today unveiled the world’s biggest building installation of OLED lighting at the inauguration ceremony for Seoul National University’s new main library. LG Chem supplied 1,100 OLED light panels for reading lights at the KwanJeong Library at Korea’s premier [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top tech giant Samsung Electronics began sales of its first Tizen-powered TV on Thursday in its home market, the first step in the company’s strategy to connect all its consumer electronics to the operating system. The newly launched models are curved SUHD TVs, the latest version of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics announced on October 28 that it would drop its Plasma Display Panel(PDP) business, as rising popularity of LCD and OLED products, mainstay in global display market, makes the business of plasma TVs increasingly unviable. The main reason for LG Electronics to discontinue the production of plasma TVs [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display and LG Display challenge each other at the 14th International Meeting on Information Display from October 14 to 16. Samsung’s keywords are “curved” and “flexible” while LG focuses on “Organic Light Emitting Diodes” and “touch” at the exhibition. In order to boast its technological prowess for curved and [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The BASF global research and development (R&D) center for electronic materials opens at the Natural Sciences Campus of Sungkyunkwan University in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. BASF is the world’s leading chemical company in Germany, founded in Ludwigshafen located near Heidelberg in 1865. For the first time in the world, the [...]