South Korea’s Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute said Tuesday it has developed transparent electrodes for organic light-emitting diode displays out of graphene in cooperation with Hanwha Techwin. Graphene is considered the thinnest, most flexible and fastest in transferring heat and electricity among exiting materials. As display panels become thinner and lighter, ways to utilize graphene are being studied by many research groups. ETRI and Hanwha said their joint research team

An LG Electronics Inc.'s organic light-emitting diode (OLED) television has been chosen as the best 4K Ultra High Definition (UHD) television, a US consumer agency said Tuesday.The LG OLED65G6P, a 65-inch 4K OLED UHD TV in LG's flagship Signature G6 series "has excellent high-definition picture and excellent UHD performance, and like all OLED TVs, it has an unlimited viewing angle," Consumer Reports said on its website in designating the product as the "Best Overall 4K TV."A file photo of LG Ele

Japan's Ricoh topped the global market for 360-degree cameras last year, industry data showed Tuesday, followed by South Korean tech giants in the second and third spots.According to the data compiled by industry tracker Strategy Analytics, Ricoh sold 160,000 units of its Theta camera in 2016.The market researcher said the company is expected to retain its top player status this year as well by selling 260,000 units.Samsung Electronics Co., which has been making efforts to expand its presence in

Samsung Electronics Co. could be required to pay additional corporate taxes due to an accounting error, industry sources here said Monday.The total that the tech giant may be ordered to pay has not been announced but sources said it could be a sizable sum. (Yonhap)National Tax Service (NTS) had been conducting its regular audit on the world‘s leading smartphone and memory chipmaker and found differences in the way Samsung viewed its corporate expenses, which are exempt from taxation. Industry in

The US Food and Drug Administration recently granted approval for the first time ever to a genetic-testing startup to directly sell its tests that can predict a person’s risk for various diseases, including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.The FDA’s landmark decision, made Thursday, is expected to pave the way for other genetic sequencing companies and startups worldwide to commercialize their own direct-to-consumer genetic tests for disease risks in the US.　　The US health regulator has permitted gen

UberEats, a food delivery service by US-based ride-hailing company Uber, is reportedly planning to debut in South Korea within this year.The on-demand delivery app will be available here by no later than the end of this year, according to Yonhap News Agency on Monday, citing sources familiar with the matter. This came about a week after Priscilla Baek, public policy lead for Asia at Uber, told The Investor on Wednesday that it was “reviewing whether UberEats will be introduced in Korea” and has

South Korea‘s top mobile messenger operator Kakao Corp. said Monday it has joined forces with scholars to develop Artificial Intelligence technology as part of a broader effort to tap deeper into the prospective market.Under an agreement with Seoul National University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Asan Medical Center, Kakao will develop core AI technology such as deep learning.Rim Ji-hoon, CEO of Kakao Corp., (right) shakes hands with Park Jong-hun of Seoul National Un

Google has reportedly proposed to LG Display an investment of at least 1 trillion won ($876 million) in the production of flexible OLED panels, according to news reports Monday. The US internet firm’s proposal is interpreted as an attempt to adopt flexible organic light-emitting diode panels in its next-generation smartphone Pixel. With the investment of 1 trillion won, LG Display could produce flexible OLED panels for around 3 million smartphones monthly. If the deal is confirmed, Google, which

SK hynix has developed a 72-layer 256-gigabit 3-D NAND Flash, the industry’s highest, and plans to start mass production of the chips in the second half of the year, the company announced Monday. It took less than a year for the South Korean chipmaker to complete the development of the fourth-generation 3-D NAND chip, since it began supplying 36-layer 128-gigabit NAND chips last April and 48-layer 256-gigabit chips in November. A single 256-gigabit NAND Flash chip can represent 32-Gigabyte stora

Intuitive Surgical, the world’s top surgical robot maker best known for its “da Vinci” robotic surgical system, will open a new surgical innovation and training center at the Sangam Digital Media City cluster in northeastern Seoul.The news was announced Monday by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, which has designated the upcoming center as the city’s first-ever service-type foreign investment institution. A robot-assisted surgical system at a local hospital (Yonhap)Seoul City and Intuitive Surg

South Korea's No. 2 tech giant LG Electronics Inc. said Monday it remained the No. 1 player in the global market for monitors with an aspect ratio of 21:9 last year.Citing the data compiled by industry tracker IDC, the company said its global market share among panel manufacturers was estimated at 67 percent in 2016. It marks the fourth-consecutive year for the South Korean company to lead the sector.Models pose with the LG UltraWide Monitor in this photo released by LG Electronics Inc. on April

Hancom Inc., a South Korean software maker, said Monday that Samsung Electronics Co.'s latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8, will come with its office application that's compatible with Microsoft Office files.The South Korean developer said the application will be on the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8 Plus that will be sold in the United States.Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy S8 is displayed at a shop in Seoul on April 9, 2017. (Yonhap)The app, Hancom Office S, allows users to edit not only P

The Korea Herald is publishing a series of articles highlighting South Korea’s promising startups in the emerging sectors of digital health care and next-generation medical devices. This is the seventh installment. – Ed.　　At age 4, an American toddler named Nicholas Volker was dying. 　Since he was born, the boy had suffered from an unknown disease that caused holes to continually form in his abdomen. Yet, no treatment, whether it be chemotherapy, antibiotics or new forms of medicine, seemed to b

A landmark acquisition of a local chipmaker by SK Group five years ago has accelerated the growth of the group’s information and communications technology businesses, pushing their outbound shipments to surge 127-fold, the group said Sunday. “The ICT affiliates’ boost in sales has played a critical role in turning the group into an export machine,” SK Group wrote in a statement Sunday. “Adding to the conventional powerhouses devoted to energy and chemical products, the ICT firms under the group

SK Innovation said Sunday it would seek to turn around the fortunes of its struggling China business by developing a longer-range battery for electric vehicles by 2020. According to a company official, the South Korean battery maker is planning massive investments in research and development for electric vehicle batteries as part of efforts to deal with the recent imposition of stricter requirements by the Chinese government on Korean battery firms.  In the aftermath of the controversial deploym