LG Uplus announced on July 16 that the company would start a 5G roaming service with Elisa of Finland on July 19.LG Uplus will offer a roaming service for customers using the V50 ThinQ smartphone from LG Electronics in cooperation with Elisa, a leading wired and wireless telecom operator in Finland

SK Telecom has launched the world's first 5G roaming service in cooperation with Swisscom, Switzerland's No. 1 mobile carrier.Swisscom with about six million subscribers launched its LTE roaming service with SK Telecom for the first time in Europe in July 2013.Swisscom launched its 5G servic

China's leading TV maker TCL appears to be considering entering the Korean market.TCL has filed an application with the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) to register a “TCL QLED” trademark. KIPO disclosed TCL’s application on June 26 so that people can file complaints against the tradem

When Netflix entered the Korean market, some analysts said that it would end up in a “storm in a teacup.” However, it took less than three years for the U.S. firm to dominate the domestic video service market. Netflix has established itself as an over-the-top (OPP) video service operator with 1.84 m

The international spot prices of memory chips are rebounding fast with the Japanese government restricting the export of semiconductor materials to South Korea. Under the circumstances, global semiconductor market conditions are expected to get better earlier than previously thought.According to mar

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, the No. 1 and No. 2 memory chipmakers in the world, are responding to Japan’s export curbs in different ways. In the case of Samsung Electronics, vice chairman Lee Jae-Yong is in the forefront of searching for ways out of the crisis. At SK Hynix, working level offic

Samsung Display and LG Display are in starkly different situations in the face of Japan’s restrictions of parts and materials exports to Korea. LG Display can produce organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels at its overseas plants, but Samsung Display’s overseas plants will be inevitably affected

Dynamics Inc., an American payment solution company, has recently filed a lawsuit against Samsung Electronics, claiming that it violated Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 with regard to mobile devices including multifunction emoulators. The United States International Trade Commission is going t

SK Hynix initiated testing of domestically procured high-purity hydrogen fluoride in order to deal with Japan’s semiconductor material export restrictions. South Korean semiconductor firms are trying to diversify their supply sources to circumvent Japan's export curbs.The hydrogen fluoride that

LG U+ announced on July 14 that it would start installing mostly on small and medium sized buildings after developing and testing a 5G telecommunication RF repeater and micro-repeater for commercial networks developed with DBcom, a small Korean company.The newly developed repeaters create 5G use env

The Korea International Trade Association said on July 14 that South Korea imported semiconductor manufacturing equipment worth a total of US$1.212 billion from Japan for the first five months of this year and the amount is equivalent to 33.8 percent of South Korea’s total semiconductor manufacturin

A forecast on the 8K TV market led by Korean TV makers such as Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics has been lowered for the third time this year. The 8K TV sales forecast for this year were less than half of last year’s and dropped by one-quarter from a year ago.In the meantime, the ongoing econo

Experts attributed it to commercialization of the fifth generation (5G) networks.South Korea clinched the top position in the mobile broadband category globally with an average download speed of 76.74mbps in May, according to a recent report by Ookla which operates “Speedtest” internet speed measure

Japan-based Nomura Securities Co. said the country’s curbs on semiconductor material exports can help the South Korean semiconductor industry. This is because the price of memory chips will rise if an inventory is reduced through production cuts that can help ease the current oversupply situation.“T

Japan’s recent export curbs on key component and materials are fueling concerns that the South Korean display manufacturers could be overtaken by Chinese companies such as BOE and CSOT.As Japan continues to impose restrictions on exports to South Korea, the woes of domestic companies, including Sams

Naver Business Platform (NBP) announced on July 11 that it has concluded an agreement with Deskera, the number one SaaS company in Southeast Asia.Deskera will provide cloud-based enterprise business software solutions to Southeast Asian customers through the global legion of the Naver Cloud Platform

Apple is likely to add China’s BOE to its iPhone supply chain following Japan’s restrictions on exports of display materials to Korea.Chinese IT industry media outlets reported on July 10 that Apple has contacted BOE to see if the Chinese company could supply panels to it. Apple is apparently concer

Samsung Electronics is planning to raise its NAND flash memory price by 10 percent amid growing concerns about a disruption in production due to the Japanese government’s semiconductor material export restrictions. Other companies such as Micron Technology are likely to follow suit.Recently, Samsung

LG U+ announced on July 9 that executives of Malaysian telecom operator Celcom Axiata, including its CEO Idham Nawawi, visited the company’s Magok Building on July 8 to discuss ways for cooperation.Established in 1988, Celcom Axiata is the oldest telecom operator in Malaysia and is considering launc

Global smart watch sales jumped 41 percent on year in 2018, with the Apple Watch Series 4 ranking first in sales, Counterpoint Research said in a recent report.According to the report, Apple accounted for 37 percent of the global market, followed by Imoo with 10 percent and Samsung Electronics with