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Samsung, LG unveil trend-leading technologies at K-Display exhibition
Visitors to Samsung Display's booth watch the company's “slidable” displays during the K-Display 2023 exhibition at the COEX convention center in Seoul, Wednesday. Korea Times photo by Baek Byung-yeul
By Baek Byung-yeul
By Baek Byung-yeul
Samsung Display and LG Display ― Korea's flagship display companies ― are showcasing their cutting-edge OLED screens at the K-Display 2023 exhibition, offering visitors a glimpse of the next-generation monitors to be used in various sectors in mobile devices, vehicles and mixed-reality, they said Wednesday.
Organized by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and hosted by the Korea Display Industry Association, the K-Display exhibition is the largest exhibition for the display industry in Korea, now in its 22nd year.
The event, the largest yet, will be held from Wednesday to Friday with 172 companies including Samsung and LG.
Samsung and LG showed off their technology at the event, unveiling new products of OLED, the next-generation display technology.
Samsung Display showcased its cutting-edge flexible OLED technology with the next generation of products that maximize the portability of large-screen IT devices.
The company introduced products that can be folded into various shapes, such as a 12.4-inch “rollable” display, which was first unveiled at SID Display Week in Los Angeles in May and “slidable” products that expand a screen in one or both directions.
Samsung Display captivated visitors with the Slidable Solo, which extends a screen in one direction, and the Slidable Duet, which extends in both directions. The company also unveiled the New Digital Cockpit, an in-vehicle display that it unveiled at CES 2023, to showcase its vision of how displays will be used in future cars.
A visitor enjoys Pearl Abyss' online role-playing game Black Desert through a display made with Samsung Display's 34-inch QD-OLED during the K-Display 2023 exhibition at the COEX convention center in Seoul, Wednesday. Korea Times photo by Baek Byung-yeul
The company attracted younger, gaming-oriented visitors by allowing them to play Pearl Abyss' online role-playing game Black Desert on a monitor with 34-inch QD-OLEDs.
Samsung Display also set up a laboratory where visitors could experience OLED's light-weight folding technology.
“We wanted to showcase the technology that Samsung Display has accumulated over the years through fun experiments,” a company spokesman said.
LG Display showcased a self-driving concept car at the exhibition.
The company featured a 34-inch ultra-large plastic OLED (POLED) that clearly displays various information such as navigation to help drivers, the company said.
Visitors to LG Display's booth watch the company's automotive POLED displays during the K-Display 2023 exhibition at the COEX convention center in Seoul, Wednesday. Korea Times photo by Baek Byung-yeul
The center and rear seats of the concept vehicle also featured POLED-based 12-inch displays, demonstrating to visitors that more information is available to passengers in the vehicle.
A full lineup of OLED TV panels, ranging in size from 42 inches up to 97 inches, were also on display to showcase the brighter picture and blacks of LG Display's OLED TV panels.
The company also unveiled a 0.42-inch display for use in augmented reality (AR) glasses. This product realized 3,500 pixels per inch by applying silicon wafers used in manufacturing semiconductors. Thanks to the technology, this product is capable of displaying images with ultra-high resolution, LG Display said.
"We will continue to show innovative customer experiences that are only possible with LG Display by providing a wide range of OLED products ranging from large, medium, small, ultra-small, automotive and transparent,” a company spokesman said.