Samsung Electronics Co., Korea's biggest exporter, and other Korean companies rely on air freight to export products such as mobile phones and semiconductors.

Taiwan is losing ground in the plasma display panel (PDP) TV arena amid fierce competition from strong rivals in South Korea and Japan, and the island？ existing players in the sector are not expected to offer next-generation PDP TV products.

Moscow's Kremlin will soon be adorned with a gold-brimmed plasma display panel, produced by Korea's very own LG Electronics.

Consumers are snapping up digital TV's this holiday season. The market analysts at Gartner predict that 3.6 million high-definition TV's will be sold this holiday season, 80 percent of what was sold in all 12 months of 2004.

Capacitorless DRAM employs a floating body cell generated underneath of the gate insulator film to store data instead of a capacitor used in conventional DRAM.

Micronas had announced a definitive agreement to acquire WISchip, a provider of audio and video SoC IC and software solutions, implementing the latest- generation MPEG1/2/4, H.264 and VC-1 HDTV standards.