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Earthquake Causes Little Trouble to Korean Panel Industry

by Yvette Raikes

An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 hit Korea’s east coast in the early afternoon of November 15th. However, it caused only a couple of hours disruption to the panel industry. Samsung Display’s production lines closed …

Tags:Korea| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Supply Chain| Vol 24 - Issue 43

Giant LED Towers for Two New South Korea Malls

by Andrew Fenn

South Korean retailer Shinsegae Corporation teamed up with Montreal-based Moment Factory to create visual content to be displayed on a giant LED tower installed in its new shopping complexes in Daegu . Moment Factory …

Tags:Korea| Large Display Monitor| LED| Retail| Vol 24 - Issue 40

Korea is Losing to China in Large-Scale LCD Market

by Andrew Fenn

Citing a report from IHS Markit released earlier this week, Business Korea confirmed that China has indeed overtaken South Korea in its large-scale LCD market share. Chinese manufacturer BOE took the number one spot …

Korea Telecom Now Using Alticast Apex Virtualisation Platform

by Alan Spencer

Alticast has announced that Korea Telecom is using Apex, from Alticast, to deliver a graphics user experience for both linear and on-demand content, completely virtualizing STB functionalities across nearly five million already-deployed IPTV STBs …

Tags:Korea| Large Display Monitor| Smart TV| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 37

Samsung and SK Telecom Successfully Trial 4G and 5G Interworking

by Alan Spencer

Samsung Electronics and SK Telecom have successfully completed what is claimed to be the world’s first 4G LTE and 5G end-to-end network interworking trial in a real outdoor environment in Seoul. To enable interworking …

Tags:Korea| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 36

Means to Quickly Transfer OLED Films May Reduce Manufacturing Time

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Professor Yoon Hong-seok within the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Hanbat National University (Daejeon Metropolitan City, Republic of Korea) are developing a new process to simultaneously transfer all …

Samsung Inaugurates LED Cinema Displays

by Milos Pavlovic

Click for high resolutionFollowing the release of the concept at Cinemacon (Samsung Surprises with LED at Cinemacon), Samsung has now said that it has installed the first ever commercial Cinema LED Screen at Lotte …

LG OLEDs Line the Sky Shuttle Lift

by Alan Spencer

The lift, known as the Sky Shuttle, that takes visitors to the Seoul Lotte World Tower observatory level has floor to ceiling, and ceiling LG OLED displays that show scenes of the Korean city …

Tags:DOOH| Korea| Large Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 25

Galaxy S8 Sells Faster Than S7

by Yvette Raikes

The Galaxy S8 sold 1 million units within 37 days of its launch in South Korea, according to a Samsung official speaking to the Korea Herald. The S6 and S7 took 75 and 74 …

Tags:Korea| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 21

HiSilicon Gets Support and Adds Media Hub Application

by Bob Raikes

HiSilicon (the chip-making subsidiary of Huawei) told us that it had no new SoCs for STBs since IBC. At the show it was mainly talking about new middleware versions. Separately, iWedia said that it …

Korea Telecom has Impressive 360 Deg VR Baseball

by Bob Raikes

Korea Telecom had an extreme VR set-up. Image:Meko Korea Telecom (SK Telecom) had this Virtual Reality ‘experience’ which was provoking very strong responses from participants! The system rotated around and bumped while the users …

VR Centre Opens in Seoul

by Bob Raikes

The South Korean government has opened a new centre in Western Seoul to act as a hub for developments in Virtual Reality. There has been an opening ceremony for the Korea Virtual Reality – …

Tags:AR/VR| Korea| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 07