The Yomiuri Shimbun reported on July 3 that a number of Japanese companies are expressing concerns that the Japanese government’s export restrictions against South Korea would negatively affect themselves and the overall economic ties between the two countries. Some Japanese experts are pointing out
Concerns are growing that Japan's economic retaliation against Korea, which started in the semiconductor and display sectors, may expand and hit the Korean industry as a whole. Japanese media outlets reported that Japan would expand the list of the items subject to export restrictions in the fut
The Japanese government announced on July 1 that it would restrict the export of semiconductor and display materials to South Korea, causing many South Korean companies to be nervous. “Japanese companies now must obtain a permission from the Japanese government to export resist, etching gas and hydr
OLED TVs are leading the European market for premium TVs costing more than US$2,500, while the U.S. premium TV market is led by LCD TVs. The global OLED TV market is dominated by LG Electronics, while Samsung Electronics is the key player in the premium LCD TV market.Europe and the United States acc
With the popularity of K-pop rising in the global market, a blockchain-based fan club platform will be introduced this year to attract world K-pop fans and help them communicate with artists.Blockchain-based social entertainment company snowM said on June 9 that it will release the demonatration ver
Korea’s major industries are beleaguered. Externally, exports of semiconductors, displays, and petrochemicals, which are the backbones of the Korean economy, have been on the decline due to a drop in demand stemming from the U.S.-China trade dispute. Internally, labor unions’ hard lines and excessiv
Samsung Electronics is focusing on the premium TV market in India, while LG Electronics is eyeing the Japanese market where few foreign TV brands have survived.Samsung Electronics announced on June 5 that it launched the 2019 edition of its QLED 8K TV in India on June 4 (local time). The company rel
Samsung Electronics' quantum dot light-emitting diode (QLED) TV sales have exceeded those of top five organic light emitting diode (OLED) TV manufacturers for three consecutive quarters.Samsung's QLED TV sales totaled 896,400 units in the first quarter of this year, dwarfing the combined sal
Samsung Electronics has lowered the price of a recently launched new 98-inch quantum dot QLED 8K TV model by nearly 30 percent to promote 8K TVs.Samsung Electronics lowered the price of the 98-inch QLED 8K TV launched in the United States last month to the US$70,000 level. The price is about US$30,0
Samsung Electronics has unveiled the industry's highest-resolution image sensor for smartphones. The company introduced on May 9 two new 0.8-micrometer (μm) pixel image sensors – the 64-megapixel (Mp) Samsung ISOCELL Bright GW1 and 48 Mp ISOCELL Bright GM2.The two new products expand Samsung’s 0
Smartphone makers have entered a technological competition to take the lead in the next generation smartphone market that will follow the first-generation foldable phone market.Major smartphone producers including Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, and Sony have entered a patent competition to dev
The organic light emitting diode (OLED) TV group led by LG Electronics is increasing its share of the global TV market. Chinese TV makers are concentrating on increasing sales volume with inexpensive liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs, but the OLED TV group is boosting sales in the premium TV market.S
Qualcomm's application processor (AP) Snapdragon will be mounted on Samsung Electronics’ foldable smartphone Galaxy Fold. It is unusual for Samsung Electronics to use Snapdragon instead of its AP Exynos in all Galaxy Fold phones, both for domestic users and overseas customers in the North Americ
Samsung Electronics ranked seventh, classified as Excellent, in this year's Harris Poll Reputation Quotient with a score of 80. For reference, Samsung ranked 35th with 77.56 in that survey last year. In this year’s survey, Sony climbed from 31st to 10th and 21st Century Fox climbed from 74th to
Korean display companies are expected to lay out large-scale investment plans during the first half of this year to respond to the rapidly growing organic light emitting diode (OLED) TV market.LG Display is likely to invest in a 10.5th-generation plant to cope with the expansion of the ultra-high an
The National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) and Korea Intellectual Property Strategy Agency (KISTA) announced on Feb. 24 that the United States led global patent applications from 2012 to 2016 in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, cloud computing
Global semiconductor manufacturers are about to release 5G modem chips one after another with a number of 5G smartphones scheduled to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 on Feb. 25.Apple is reportedly developing its own 5G modem chip. According to LetsGoDigital, a Dutch online magazine,
Samsung Electronics is reaching out to its competitors such as Sharp and LG Electronics in a bid to promote 8K TVs.Last month, Samsung Electronics launched the 8K Association together with major global TV manufacturers, including Panasonic, TCL, Hisense and AUO.Samsung is now encouraging its competi
While Samsung Electronics and Huawei are planning to launch foldable phones in the first half of next year, terminal makers are pouring out patents on next-generation smartphones, such as foldable and rollable phones.According to industry and foreign sources on Dec. 30, LG Electronics has recently a
Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2019, which will run in Las Vegas for four days from Jan. 8 (local time), is expected to showcase premium TV technology and advanced smart home technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT).Samsung Electronics, which betted on micr