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• Korean firms "dumping whitegoods".

  - 2003-02-07

  Feb 06, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Two South Korean whitegoods manufacturers are accused of dumping products in the Australian market. Samsung and Daewoo Electronics were named as dumpers in a report by the Australian Customs Service ACS, sent to...

  Tags: Daewoo Electronics Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

• Korean electronics gears up for DTT.(Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Daewoo Electronics)(Brief Article)

  - 2001-07-01

  Korea's three leading electronics manufacturers are gearing up for launch of digital terrestrial television DTT in Seoul in September this year (see 1999/100a2). Samsung Electronics plans to invest 500bn won ($380m) in research and development on digital television by 2005 and thus increase global market share...

  Tags: Daewoo Electronics Corp., LG Electronics Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

• Samsung Motors In Receivership - Brief Article

  - 1999-08-01

  Samsung Group has placed its fledgling car division, Samsung Motors, into court receivership after efforts to swap the firm for Daewoo Electronics failed. Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee, who personally put his weight behind the foray into car manufacturing, promised to take "moral and social responsibility" for the collapse...

  Tags: Daewoo Electronics Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Group

• Korean deal to hit Ulster?

  - 1999-01-11

  Senior management at Daewoo Electronics in Northern Ireland have warned that the swap of assets between Daewoo and Samsung could threaten up to 2000 jobs in the province. Daewoo has two factories making VCRs, in Antrim and Carrickfergus, employing 1000 directly and an estimated 1000 among...

  Tags: Daewoo Electronics Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

• DAEWOO TO SWALLOW SAMSUNG AUTO UNIT.

  - 1998-12-14

  SEOUL - And suddenly there were two. Barely 10 days after Hyundai Motor Co. completed its acquisition of bankrupt Kia Motors Corp., Daewoo Motor Corp. last week agreed ``in principle'' to take over Samsung Motors, the startup automaker that proved to be one straw...

  Tags: Daewoo Electronics Corp., Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

• Koreans merge after credit threats

  - 1998-12-14

  The intervention of South Korea's president Kim Dae Jung in the reform of the country's five chaebol will have a major impact on the global electronics industry by changing the ownership of some of the major players. South Korea will be left with two major electronics groups when Samsung...

  Tags: Daewoo Electronics Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

• KOREA PUSHING SAMSUNG OUT OF THE CAR BUSINESS.

  - 1998-12-07

  SEOUL - In a sign that the South Korean government is turning to its old arm-twisting tactics to accelerate the restructuring of the country's major corporations, a top official said last week that the Samsung Group will exit the auto business. Kang Bong-Kyun, an...

  Tags: Daewoo Electronics Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.