Tag: LG

If these workers were in fact working at this plant on tourist visas then I don’t see how they are going to win this lawsuit:

LG Energy Solution and Hyundai Motor Group are distancing themselves from the legal actions of workers against the U.S. government over their detention during last year’s immigration raid at the companies’ joint battery plant in Georgia. 

An LG Energy Solution official told The Korea Times Wednesday that the company was not aware that employees were taking legal action until media reports emerged Tuesday night. The official added that the company would not get involved because the legal actions were based on individual decisions by the workers, and the company is not tracking who is joining the campaign.

An official at Hyundai Motor Group also said none of the company’s employees were among those detained at the time, adding that it is not involved in legal action taken individually by workers from partner companies or those dispatched to the site.

Korea Times

You can read more at the link.

There is now one less major mobile phone manufacturer:

LG Electronics said Monday it will withdraw from the mobile business after years of money-losing performance amid intensifying competition with bigger rivals. 

The South Korean tech powerhouse said in a regulatory filing that its mobile communications (MC) unit will no longer produce and sell handsets after July 31, citing its long slump and fierce competition in the industry. 

Korea Times

You can read more at the link, but according to the article LG Electronics has accumulated $4.4 billion in debt from the lack of mobile phone sales.

This photo shows a concept baby carriage, which the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), has made. The stroller won the grand prize at the 2016 SPARK International Design Awards. UNIST provided this photo. (Yonhap)

Using only an LG Electronics cordless vacuum cleaner, two-time U.S. rock climbing champion Sierra Blair-Coyle scales a 33-story skyscraper in Songdo, west of Seoul, on April 27, 2016, in this photo provided on May 23 by the company. LG said the 22-year-old female climber has succeeded in climbing the 140-meter-tall building carrying two LG Cord Zero Cykings on her back and using their suction power. (Yonhap)

A model shows off two new inverter dehumidifiers, manufactured by LG Electronics Inc., during a publicity event in Seoul on May 3, 2015, in this photo released by LG on May 4. The two products have the largest capacity of 17 liters among dehumidifiers available in South Korea. (Yonhap)

Shown at an event in Seoul on March 9, 2015, are LG Electronics Inc.’s 21-9 ratio curved monitors. (Yonhap)

Models showcase LG Electronics Inc.’s latest G Flex 2 smartphones with curved display at an event in Seoul on Jan. 22, 2015. The G Flex 2, with a Full HD 5.5-inch display, will become LG’s second smartphone that boasts a display curving inward from top to bottom and slightly from right to left, though slightly smaller than its 6-inch predecessor. (Yonhap)

It looks like Google is serious about pushing for a near term release of their self driving car technology.  I can see this probably being a custom option available to customers just like Ford currently has the automatic parking feature in some of their vehicles:

LG Electronics Inc. said Thursday it will supply battery packs to the self-driving cars to be launched by U.S. Google Inc. a move that wil certainly help South Korea’s No. 2 tech giant tap deeper into the automobile industry.

“We have been conducting various projects with Google as a strategic partner. Our automotive technology will now be applied to Google’s self-driving cars,” an LG official said.

A battery pack is a set of any number of individual battery cells.

Google said it will also partner with U.S. automaker General Motors Co., Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp., Germany’s Volkswagen AG and Daimler AG, and join forces with chipmaker Nvidia Corp. and German automotive technology giant Bosch as well.

Earlier this month, LG said its chief has discussed possible business tie-ups with the head of Mercedes-Benz. The company launched the Vehicle Components Division by regrouping its business sectors in 2013 in line with its efforts to tap new sources of profits. [Yonhap]

Shown is the outdoor signboard of LG Electronics Inc. set up at Riyadh International Airport in Saudi Arabia. LG said on Sept. 19, 2014, the 250-meter-long, 12-meter-wide structure has been approved by the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest outdoor signboard. (Yonhap)