US sanction against Huawei will likely negatively affect South Korea’s semiconductor industry if the Chinese tech giant faces difficulty in its smartphone production, a South Korean government research institute said.If Huawei is reduced to a mid-tier phone maker from US interference, the company wi

Seoul Viosys has begun online sales of its purifier and sterilizer that comes with its proprietary Ultraviolet (UV) LED technology, the company said Monday.Portable sterilizer VSM+ and air purifier VAC are now available online, the company said. It will be available on 11th Street, Gmarket, Auction,

SK Telecom has invested $20 million in Israeli medical imaging company, the company said.It is in addition to the initial $5 million it made a year ago in Nanox’s seed round, and makes the telco the second largest share holder of the firm, SK Telecom said.The Israeli firm also has Foxconn, FujiFilm

Samsung and LG have withdrawn their complaints filed to the South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) as of Friday, which stemmed from their squabbles over their respective TV advertisements last year.The FTC said it will no longer proceed with the case as both parties have withdrawn. LG withdrew on

Tech Forum will hold a seminar on next-generation displays on June 26, the organizer said Friday.The event will be held at Sapphire Hall on the second floor of FKI Tower in Yeouido, Seoul. Industry experts will share the current development status and trend in: new display technology design, new adh

Dreamtech has developed a diagnostic device that can detect whether a patient has contracted COVID-19 in 30 seconds, the company said Friday.The device was co-developed with Israeli start-up Nanoscent, and uses the company’s electronic nose solution.It detects volatile organic compound from patient’

South Korean display equipment vendor Leading Edge Technology (LET) is gearing up to go public.LET CEO Lee Hong-geun said the company will become an equipment vendor that handle front- to back-end display production, at its KOSDAQ IPO conference at Yeouido, on Thursday.LET was formed in 2001 by ex-L

Samsung Electronics has started a public competition for consumers to make their own artworks using the company’s eco-package for TVs, the company said Thursday.Consumers can turn in pictures of what they made using the packages for the contest, called Eco Pet House Challenge, by June 30. They can a

Samsung Display’s OLED panels have been certified as "Seamless Displays" from verification firm SGS, the company said Thursday.The South Korean display maker’s 90Hz and 120Hz smartphone OLED panels scored blur lengths of 0.9mm and 0.7mm, respectively, in SGS's review.The two panels also marked movie

LG Electronics and LG Uplus has signed a comprehensive agreement with KT to collaborate in AI, the companies announced Wednesday.The three has agreed to share and co-develop core AI technologies, create new products, services and solutions using AI as well as to use AI to solve social issues togethe

Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) has developed a new electrode structure with increased durability and decreased performance drop of batteries, the government institute said Wednesday.Previous research focused on replacing metal foils, which are vulnerable to machine deformation, with c

Merck has integrated its recently acquired US firms into its semiconductor solution unit, it said.Versum Materials and Intermolecular will be integrated to Semiconductor Solutions, which will be under its Performance Materials, the company said.Performance Materials complements what each component c

Worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings rose 13% in the first quarter from a year prior, industry group SEMI said Tuesday.Total billing for the quarter was US$15.57 billion, SEMI said. Taiwan was at the top of the list at US$4.02 billion, a rise of 6% from a year ago. China was seco

Ansys Korea and TUV Rheinland Korea will co-research technology validation of electric vehicles (EV) and autonomous cars, the companies said.The two companies signed the co-research and technology sharing agreement on Wednesday.They will collaborate to provide an environment for EV and autonomous ca

KT and Cognex has launched their machine vision solution for use in smart factories, the companies said.The South Korean telco and US-based image recognition company said 5G Smart Factory Vision will offer a rule-based machine vision and a deep learning-based machine vision.The solutions will collec

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