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Panel expert downbeat on Korean investments in premium TV displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald reported from a seminar in Seoul last week that Yi Choong-hoon from UBI Research that although there is some demand for large OLEDs for TVs, monitors and laptops, …

Tags:Forecasts| Investment| Korea| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED Fabs| Samsung Display

KAIST is Developing a White OLED Device Based on Fiber Substrates

by Arthur Berman

Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, Republic of Korea) or KAIST are developing a white OLED (WOLED) on a thin fiber substrate. Such fibers have the potential for use …

Tags:Fabric & Textile Displays| Korea| OLEDs| R&D (Research & Development)

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Samsung acquitted over LG OLED tech theft

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Maeil Business News of Korea reports that the Korean Supreme court has upheld an appeal by five employees of Samsung Display and an LG partner against a conviction over stealing secrets …

Tags:Korea| LG Displays (LGD)| Litigation| Patents| Samsung Display

APS Holdings forming ultra high resolution FMM research line

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that APS Holdings in Korea is developing a facility for ultra high resolution fine metal mask (FMM) OLED manufacturing in Chonan. Resolution could get as high as 3,000ppi. …

Tags:Korea| Microdisplays| OLEDs| R&D (Research & Development)| Vapour Deposition

Merck OLED Production Now Expanded in Korea

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald reported that Merck Korea has now completed the expansion of it OLED material facility in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province after a plan to invest €20million. announced in 2020. (Merck …

Tags:Korea| Merck| OLED Materials

Researchers develop large-area efficient perovskite LEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Researchers at Seoul National University have developed perovskite LEDs that can be used to make extremely large pixels. The team said that it has made PeLEDs with an EQE of 22.5% …

Tags:Korea| PeLED (Perovskite LED)| Perovskite| R&D (Research & Development)

SID’s 60th Anniversary – Optimism in the Face of Falling Panel Prices, Demand and Profitability (Part 1)

by Barry Young

Ross Young, CEO of DSCC started the Business Conference with a message that the last two years saw record breaking revenues, shipments and profits, but warned that it would take four years before the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| China| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Korea| Large LCD Supply| Market Data| MicroLED| OLED Fabs| OLEDs| SID Display Week 2022| Supply Chain| Virtual Reality

Samsung and LG Display’s OLED negotiations focused on 150 nit panels

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Korean news site, The Elec, said that the on-going discussions between Samsung’s TV business and LG Display over the possible supply of OLED panels are focused mainly around the lowest cost …

Tags:Korea| LG Displays (LGD)| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Samsung| Samsung Display| sony

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Korean Government May Give New Tax Benefits for OLED Makers

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Business Korea reports that the South Korean government is considering designating OLED as a ‘national strategic technology’. There are currently 34 such technologies including advanced semiconductor, vaccine and EV battery. The …

Tags:Korea| OLEDs

Samsung Caught in Scandal over S22 Performance

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald reports that Samung has been attacked by a lot of users in Korea over reports that an add-in, the ‘Game Optimizing Service’, or GOS, may kick in to …

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South Korean government is investing in the Metaverse

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The South Korean government said that it would invest $187 million towards a national metaverse project. Park Yungyu, head of communication and policy department at the ministry, stated in the announcement …

Tags:Korea| The Metaverse