SUWON, Gyeonggi Province -- Around 900 shareholders of Samsung Electronics gathered at a convention center in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, on Wednesday to attend their 52nd annual meeting. The number of attendees more than doubled from last year, when fears of the COVID-19 pandemic hit especially hard. Samsung has hosted the shareholders meeting at the 2,000-seat Suwon Convention Center since last year. Previous meetings held at its headquarters building in Seocho-gu, southern Seoul, were ove

Technology March 17, 2021

Unionized employees at Samsung Electronics' semiconductor business protest against a 2.5 percent raise in annual salaries in the lobby of the company's headquarters in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, on Tuesday. (Blind)

Technology March 16, 2021

Choi Hyoung-jin, a researcher at Samsung Research, the research and development arm of Samsung Electronics, was named to head a global research body on the sixth-generation telecommunications network, the tech giant said Tuesday. Choi has been appointed as chair of Vision Group on IMT towards 2030 and beyond (6G) at the International Telecommunication Union -- Radiocommunication during an online assembly held from March 1-12. The 6G Vision Group was launched at the recent ITU-R meeting.

Technology March 16, 2021

Samsung Display said Tuesday that it has supplied for the first time its organic light-emitting diode displays for Asus’ newest gaming smartphone ROG Phone 5. The Taiwanese computer hardware company’s latest ROG Phone 5 sports the Korean panel maker‘s 6.78-inch OLED screen, which is designed to support seamless streaming of fast-rate high-resolution gaming content. Samsung’s mobile display that supports over a 120 Hz refresh rate has been certified as a Seamless Dis

Technology March 16, 2021

With de-facto chief Lee Jae-yong in jail, drama appears to be brewing ahead of Samsung Electronics’ upcoming general shareholders meeting, amid growing calls for improved checks and balances within its corporate governance system. In a new blow to the current management led by the jailed executive vice chairman and son of the late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee, a proxy adviser recommended voting against the reappointment of three outside directors. But the National Pension Service, the

Technology March 15, 2021

South Korea’s LG Electronics has grabbed the top spots in home appliance rankings by US-based nonprofit organization Consumer Reports. LG’s organic light-emitting diode TV model 65CX scored 87 and was ranked the best TV among 227 products in the US organization’s latest rankings report for 2021. For LG, it reclaimed its position at the top of the TV list in two years. Of the top 10 TV models, seven were by LG, suggesting a consumer preference for the Korean-made TVs. Th

Technology March 14, 2021

 Jang Seong-hwan, 92-year-old South Korean businessman, and his wife decided to donate a real estate worth 20 billion won to the Korea Advanced Institute of Technology, the institution said Sunday. KAIST held a ceremony to mark Jang’s donation at a hotel in Seoul on Saturday, it said. The donation includes a six-floor building with two basement floors on a landmass of 580 square meters in Nonhyun-dong, southern Seoul. Jang is a son of a North Korean family, who crossed the borde

Technology March 14, 2021

Samsung Electronics and its affiliates are set to announce an open recruitment of college graduates and soon-to-be graduates this week, maintaining a large-scale hiring of entry-level workers amid the pandemic in South Korea. According to industry sources on Sunday, Samsung Electronics and three other affiliates – Samsung Display, Samsung SDI and Samsung Electro-Mechanics – will release their recruitment announcements soon. Some of the affiliates are holding online job fairs am

Technology March 14, 2021

The trial of Samsung Group’s de facto chief, Lee Jae-yong, resumed Thursday, increasing legal risks for the country’s biggest conglomerate as the court examines his role in the 2015 merger of two business units within the group. The Seoul Central Court held a second session to set a preliminary date for the trial of 12 Samsung executives, including the imprisoned Samsung Electronics vice chairman, who is the only son of the late Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee. The session was

Technology March 11, 2021

Samsung Electronics is preparing for another event to unveil some of its newest Galaxy devices next week as a likely move to garner attention for products other than its flagship S series. The tech giant has sent out invitations to a new unveiling event for its Galaxy devices, “Galaxy Awesome Unpacked.” The event is a new addition this year to Samsung’s existing Galaxy Unpacked events, which are usually held twice a year to announce flagship phones. The invitation said

Technology March 10, 2021

Samsung Electronics said Wednesday that the company will roll out the first consumer drive without DRAM -- the 980 Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) SSD, which delivers the highest performance among DRAM-less SSDs at a faster speed. Previously, DRAM-less designs had a disadvantage in speed as they lacked the short-term memory for fast access to data. To address the issue and overcome any performance drawbacks, Samsung used the Host Memory Buffer technology, which links the drive directly

Technology March 10, 2021

Samsung Electronics has an aim to boost its sales of customizable Bespoke products to 80 percent of total consumer electronics sales, the company’s president said Tuesday. During an online press conference held to announce the new Bespoke Home products, Lee Jae-seung, president of Samsung’s consumer electronics business, said the company will expand the Bespoke lineup further both at home and abroad. “The company aims to expand the Bespoke sales to account for 80 percent of

Technology March 9, 2021

LG Innotek said Monday the company has inked a deal with Microsoft to increase its share in the 3D-sensing module market. The South Korean electronic parts supplier signed a memorandum of understanding with the US-based tech mogul to cooperate on the development of ToF modules for Microsoft’s Azure Cloud service. The ToF -- time of flight -- module is a core component of 3D-sensing cameras which perceives three-dimensionality, spatial information and movement of an object by measuring

Technology March 8, 2021

Nearly a month has passed since the US trade court delivered a victory to LG Energy Solution in its trade secret dispute with crosstown rival SK Innovation, but the two sides appear no closer to ending their bitter war. Quite the contrary. The fight between the world’s two leading battery producers for electric vehicles has now spilled over to the White House, much to the dismay of Seoul officials, who hope for an early resolution to the matter, saying this would help Korea maintain its l

Technology March 7, 2021

The United States International Trade Commission has confirmed publicly that SK Innovation misappropriated 22 trade secrets of its domestic archrival LG Energy Solution while developing electric vehicle batteries. According to a public document unveiled by the USITC on Thursday (US time), SK’s trade secret theft and destruction of related evidence were planned and organized at a high level, which the commission described as “extraordinary.” The document backs the US trade

Technology March 5, 2021