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Apple, Xiaomi talk smartphone price hikes. Samsung quietly cushions the blow.

While Chinese rivals pull back and Apple strips AI features, the Korean tech giant is playing the memory crisis to its advantage — for now.

2026.7.12

Global auto parts makers camp out in Korea, vying to secure memory chips from Samsung, SK hynix

A shortage of memory chips is starting to be felt in the automotive sector as chipmakers funnel their scarce capacity into lucrative AI- and data-center-driven memory, pushing low-margin automotive chips to the back of the line.

2026.2.10

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President Yoon Suk-yeol, third from left, and U.S. President Joe Biden, second from left, visited a Samsung Electronics chip factory in Pyeongtaek on May 20 when the two presidents vowed to further cooperate on supply chain management. [NEWS1]

[NAVIGATING CRISES] Supply-chain crisis forces a big business rethink

Korean companies are holding high-level meetings to address supply-chain issues as disruptions have held up production and led to cascading bottlenecks in the global economy, where shortages in one place daisy-chain to the other side of the world.

2022.8.30

Doosan Chairman Park Jeong-won checks a wafer testing facility at Doosan Tesna's factory in Anseong, Gyeonggi. [DOOSAN]

Doosan Corporation to invest 1 trillion won in semiconductors

Doosan Corporation will invest 1 trillion won ($774 million) into its semiconductor business over five years, according to Chairman Park Jeong-won.

2022.6.15

Hyundai Motor cars are parked at its Ulsan factory on April 7 waiting to be delivered. [YONHAP]

Want to buy a new car? Get ready for a wait.

The excitement of ordering a new car is being dampened by increasingly long wait times for delivery due to the continuing global auto chip shortage.

2022.6.1

Hyundai Motor's factory in St. Petersburg, Russia [HYUNDAI MOTOR]

Hyundai Motor sells less but makes more in Q1

Hyundai Motor sold less cars in the first quarter but its revenue and net profit beat expectations as more expensive cars such as Genesis models and SUVs sold well.

2022.4.25

Car production affected by virus, war and chip shortages

Carmakers continue to face challenges due to the global chip shortage, the Ukraine-Russia conflict and China's Covid-19 lockdown.

2022.3.30

Customers have to wait 14 months to get a Kia Sportage hybrid SUV. [KIA]

Chip shortage continues its drag on auto industry

The global shortage of semiconductors for automobiles started in 2020, driven by production halts caused by Covid-19 lockdowns, the U.S.-China trade war.

2022.2.17

A promotional campaign is displayed in Times Square, New York, ahead of Galaxy Unpacked 2022 set for Feb. 9. [SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS]

[EXCLUSIVE] Galaxy S22 prices to equal Galaxy S21

The price of the upcoming Galaxy S22 series will start from 999,000 won ($834) in Korea, according to a source in the telecom industry, the same exact price tag as the Galaxy S21 counterpart.

2022.2.4

Korea’s Trade Minister Moon Sung-wook, right, poses with U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo in Washington on Tuesday after discussing ways to resolve a global supply crunch. [YONHAP]

Let's not do this again, minister tells commerce secretary

Korea's trade minister told his U.S. counterpart that her department’s request that chipmakers provide detailed information on semiconductor sales and inventories should be a one-off.

2021.11.10