Korea Semiconductor Industry Association (KISA) has named a new executive vice chairman.KSIA said Monday Lee Chang-han, formely the director of planning and coordination at the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, was named to the post in unanimous decision by the board.Lee’s tenure will la

APS Holdings has been assigned a government project to develop production technology for fine metal masks (FMM) used in deposition process when making active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOED), the company said Tuesday.FMM are used to deposit organic materials precisely when making OLED pan

Seoul Viosys will begin sales of its portable sterilizer, called VSM+, this month, the company said Tuesday.It will be available online starting in June 8 in South Korea and the US.VSM+ comes with Viosys’ violeds technology, which uses ultraviolet LED to kill germs.The company said it was effectivel

Hanwha Corporation is to issue public bonds to secure 70 billion won in funding, the company said Tuesday.It filed for the plan to the Financial Supervisory Service Monday, it said. NH Investment & Securities and Hanwha Investment & Securities will underwrite the transaction, it said.The company sai

Korea Toray Science Foundation will reward two researchers who have contributed to chemistry and material sciences, it announced Monday.Each researcher will get 100 million won as prize.It will also offer grants to four science team. Each team will receive up to 50 million won per year for a maximum

SK Nexilis will invest 120 billion won, or US$97 million, into expanding one of its copper foil factory, the company announced.The factory, dubbed Factory 6, at Jeongeup, North Jeolla Province will produce 9,000 metric tonnes of copper foil per year when construction is completed in the first quarte

Samsung Electronics has opened an exhibition zone for its The Wall MicroLED TV at a department store in Suwon, the company said.A 146-inch version of The Wall will be displayed at a showroom near the entrance of the company’s premium store in the eighth floor of Galleria department store, Samsung sa

Samsung Electronics has launched its Odyssey G7 gaming monitor, first unveiled at CES earlier this year. The curved, QLED monitor comes in 27-inch and 32-inch sizes and has a curvature radius of 1,000 millimeters. Samsung said it has a 1ms response time with 240Hz refresh rate.It boasts 600 cd/m2 pe

LG Group chairman Koo Kwang-mo has asked employees to create a “culture of bold challenges” in an address made late Thursday at one of the conglomerate’s key facilities in Seoul.“Not doing anything, not boldly challenging can be seen as a failure,” he said to mark the second anniversary of the openi

Analog Devices as launched a software configurable input/output chips set in South Korea, the company said Friday.AD74412R and AD74413R allows for remote building and process control applications, which will increase work speed and flexibility.There is no downtime or extra cost when modifying design

OLED equipment vendor Shindo ENG Lab has sent registration statement to the Financial Services Commission Thursday, in preparation for an IPO in July.Shindo was founded in 2000 and supplies equipment for LCD and OLED production.Its main product is its 3D laminator that comes with its proprietary tec

Samsung Display has won the Display of the Year Award from Society for Information Display (SID), the company said.The company won the top award for its foldable display used in Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Fold.Dubbed Infinity Flex, the display is 7.3-inch in size when unfolded and 4.6-inch when fol

SK Broadband was pressuring its equipment suppliers to cut unit prices, people familiar with the matter said.Negotiation has been “tight”, they told TheElec Thursday, since Choi Jin-hwan became CEO of SK Broadband. Talks that usually ended between March to April is still ongoing, they added.Another

Wafer-processing solution provider ACM Research has developed a new suit of cleaning tools dubbed Ultra C, the company announced Wednesday for the South Korean market.Ultra C b, Ultra C wb and Ultra C s are for backside cleaning, automated wet bench and scrubbing, respectively. They were "semi-criti

NXP Semiconductors has named Kurt Sievers at its new CEO Wednesday, effective immediately.He replaces Richard Clemmer who will remain as a strategic adviser.“His expertise across business segments, passion for innovation and connections with NXP investors, customers, and employees around the world m

LG Uplus and GS E&C will apply artificial intelligence (AI) on the CCTV system of construction sites to increase worker safety, the companies said Thursday.The telco will also provide 4G LTE and 5G wireless network optimized for use in such sites, it said.The AI system will analyze people and object

Qualcomm will launch Extended Reality (XR) Viewers in collaboration with 15 global telcos, the company said Wednesday.At Augmented World Expo hosted by the company, it said the XR Viewers will come in glasses tethered to a 5G-enabled smartphone via USB-C cable.South Korean telcos SK Telecom, KT and

Cosmo AM&T and SK Telecom will install solar panels at the former’s factory in Chungju, the companies announced.They will finish installation by October and began supplying the energy in November to KEPCO, the country’s largest electric utility.The plant will have an energy capacity of 2.7MW.The sol

SK Telecom has developed a new autonomous robot that will handle disinfection and monitoring duties to assist in preventing the spread of COVID-19, the company said Tuesday.The robot, which was co-developed with South Korean industrial automation solution provider Omron, will disinfect designated ar

LG Chem has announced it will not enter any businesses that it can’t guarantee safety and environmental protection going forward, Tuesday.It will also consider pulling out of any existing business that it can’t guarantee employee safety and the environment, company added.The strengthened safety meas