The Korea Herald

Samsung chief’s fate in focus at shareholders meeting

Mar 17, 2021

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 o...
Samsung to maintain No. 1 smartphone vendor status in 2021: report

Mar 17, 2021

Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to defend its top status in the global smartphone market this year despite challenges from Chinese brands, a report showed Wednesday. Worldwide smartphone shipmen...
Samsung's smart TV streaming platform expands presence in 2020: report

Mar 17, 2021

Tizen, a Linux-based operating system developed by Samsung Electronics Co., was the top smart TV streaming platform last year, a report showed Wednesday, thanks to its status as the world's largest T...
S. Korea to limit excessive payments to livestreamers

Mar 17, 2021

South Korea's telecommunications regulator said Wednesday it will push for a law revision to set limits on user payments to livestream broadcasters amid reports of financial damage to users that splu...
[Photo News] Samsung's labor union protests against 2.5% rise in annual salaries

Mar 16, 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...
S. Korea’s data industry grew 14% to W19tr in 2020

Mar 16, 2021

South Korea’s data industry grew 14 percent to 19 trillion won ($16.81 billion) last year, according to government data on Tuesday. According to a report from the Ministry of Science and ICT and the...
Hyosung Advanced Materials to supply airbag for Amazon’s self-driving car

Mar 16, 2021

Hyosung Advanced Materials, the South Korea-based industrial materials producer, said Tuesday that the company would supply its airbags for an Amazon-backed self-driving car. According to Hyosung Ad...
Samsung researcher named chair of global group on 6G

Mar 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...
Samsung Display supplies OLED display for Asus gaming phone

Mar 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...
Google Korea to lower in-app commission rate for developers

Mar 15, 2021

The South Korean unit of Google Inc. has decided to lower its planned commission rate for app developers, parliamentary and industry sources said Monday, amid complaints from software makers over ste...
[News Focus] Proxy adviser puts NPS in dilemma ahead of Samsung shareholders vote

Mar 15, 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 i...
Samsung Bioepis to begin local sales of Humira biosimilar with Yuhan

Mar 15, 2021

Samsung Bioepis said Monday that the company has signed a marketing partnership with Yuhan to launch its adalimumab biosimilar Adalloce. Adalloce is a pen type biosimilar of Humira, used in treating...
Netflix's mobile active users top 10m in Feb.: data

Mar 15, 2021

Active users of video streaming apps by Netflix Inc. on their mobile devices topped 10 million in South Korea last month, more than doubling from the start of last year, data showed Monday. The vide...
LG tops best home appliance lists in US

Mar 14, 2021

US Consumer Reports picks LG home appliances as best products
Samsung Brush chairman donates W20bn worth real estate for KAIST

Mar 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. K...