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Samsung Display to Showcase Industry-Leading Technologies at Display Week

2013-05-20T02:44:45+01:00

Samsung Display announced today that it is showcasing several industry-leading technologies and, mobile to extra-large-sized display prototypes at the Society for Information Display’s Display Week 2013, May 21-23, 2013, in the Vancouver Convention Centre (Booth 700). These include a Full HD (1920×1080) mobile AMOLED display with the world's broadest color gamut, and an 85-inch Ultra HD (3840×2160) LCD TV panel with extremely vivid color and low power consumption. In addition,...

Samsung Engineering Wins MEED Quality Awards for Projects

2013-05-16T08:48:22+01:00

Samsung Engineering, the first and largest engineering company in Korea, announced it had received the MEED Quality Awards for Projects, in association with Ernst & Young 2013 for its Ma’aden Ammonia Plant. Hosted by MEED, at the Gala Awards ceremony in Abu Dhabi, Samsung Engineering’s Senior Executive Vice President Steve Fludder and Ma’aden’s Director Fehaid Al-Hajri celebrated its great partnership. Samsung Engineering was awarded the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning...

Samsung Announces World’s First 5G mmWave Mobile Technology

2013-05-14T09:09:47+01:00

Samsung Electronics announced that it has successfully developed the world’s first adaptive array transceiver technology operating in the millimeter-wave Ka bands for cellular communications. The new technology sits at the core of 5G mobile communications system and will provide data transmission up to several hundred times faster than current 4G networks. And our colleagues at Samsung Tommorrow, Samsung Electronics' official global blog, took a look at details of this innovative...

Samsung to Establish Foundation for Future Technology Development

2013-05-13T02:40:02+01:00

Samsung announced today it will establish the Samsung Research Foundation to help foster and invest in technologies in the areas of basic science, materials engineering and information and communications technology (ICT) projects. The foundation aims to contribute to building and strengthening the infrastructure for innovation and future technology development for the benefit of the broader society and economy, at a time when cultivating new growth engines for the future has...

What a Wonderful World: Sharing Our Design Philosophy

2013-05-09T01:27:33+01:00

You must have imagined at least once in your lifetime what it would be like to wave a magic wand to make something inside your head come to real life. Many of you might be surprised to hear that this fairyland story came true in Milan last month! What a wonderful world! The dream came true in a special exhibition by our affiliate Samsung Electronics at the 52nd Milan Furniture...

Samsung Keeps Efforts to Make Our Planet Greener with Eco-Packaging

2013-05-07T07:07:22+01:00

Did you know April 22 is Earth Day, when events are held globally to demonstrate support for environmental protection? Efforts to protect our environment are an essential factor these days for individuals and companies alike. Samsung Electronics has developed numerous green products. Some products are designed to reduce power consumption like memory chips, notebook PCs, monitors, TVs, and refrigerators, to name a few. Some use eco-friendly materials such as bio-plastic...

3-D Printing, Replicating Things Beyond Your Imagination

2013-05-02T05:30:09+01:00

Imagine being able to build a desk for your study with just a click of a button, instead of having to go through the painstaking carpentry work of cutting and carving wood. How simpler would your life be? That dream may just become possible with the help of 3-D printing and today, we’d like to take a peek into this revolutionary technology and what it has in store for us...

Precious Treasures Re-Born with Innovative Technology

2013-04-30T06:20:52+01:00

Walking into a room as dark as an ancient cave, glittering artifacts made centuries ago catch your eyes. Standing in front of the shining treasures in the darkened room, you dive into the breath and sweat of the craftsmen that lived a thousand years ago. You can explore glittering treasures in the dark exhibition room There lies the Gilt Silver Ewer – a vase-shaped pitcher on display at Leeum, Samsung...

10 Corso Como Seoul, A Unique Blend of Fashion and Culture

2013-04-25T06:06:53+01:00

For all those K-pop fans out there, the April 13 release of K-pop star Psy’s new music video “Gentleman” may have been quite an event to look forward to. Did you know one of the spots featured in the music video is affiliated with Samsung? Do you recognize this place? The fashion store featured in the beginning of Psy’s latest music video is ‘10 Corso Como Seoul,’ the first overseas...

From Day Care to College, Samsung Helps Children Climb the Ladder of Hope

2013-04-23T05:12:53+01:00

While Samsung has evolved over the past 75 years of changes and challenges, its philosophy of devoting talent and technologies to creating a better global society hasn’t changed a bit and people have been at the heart of all of our businesses. With this belief in the value of people, we today would like to introduce our “Ladder of Hope” initiative, designed to give more children from low-income families a...