The history of LG Electronics has always been surrounded by the company's desire to create a happier, better life.
LG Electronics was established in 1958 and has since led the way into the advanced digital era thanks to the technological expertise acquired by manufacturing many home appliances such as radios and TVs. LG Electronics has unveiled many new products, applied new technologies in the form of mobile devices and digital TVs in the 21st century and continues to reinforce its status as a global company.
- 1958 Founded asGoldStar
- 1959 Korea first radios
- 1998 60-inch Plasma TV
- 1999 Joint venturewith Philips
- 2003 Enters UK GSM handset market
- 2005 Develops 3G UMTS DMB handset
- 2007 Launches HD disc player and drive
- 1958
- Founded as GoldStar
- 1960's
- Produces Korea's first radios, TVs, refrigerators,
washing machines, and air conditioners
- 1995
- Renamed LG Electronics
- Acquires US-based Zenith
- 1997
- World's first CDMA digital mobile handsets supplied to Ameritech and GTE in U.S. Achieves UL certification in U.S.
- Develops world's first IC set for DTV
- 1998
- Develops world's first 60-inch plasma TV
- 1999
- Establishes LG Philips LCD, a joint venture with
Philips
- 2000
- Launches world's first Internet refrigerator
- Exports synchronous IMT-2000 to Marconi
Wireless of Italy
- Significant exports to Verizon Wireless in U.S.
- 2001
- GSM mobile handset Exports to Russia, Italy, and
Indonesia
- Establishes market leadership in Australian
CDMA market
- Launches world's first Internet washing machine, air conditioner, and microwave oven
- 2002
- Under LG Holding Company system, separates
into LG Electronics and LG Corporation
- Full-scale export of GPRS color mobile phones to
Europe
- Establishes CDMA handset production line and
R&D center in China
- 2003
- Enters Northern European and Middle East GSM
handset market
- Achieves monthly export volume above 2.5
million units (July)
- Top global CDMA producer
- 2004
- EVSB, the next-generation DTV transmission
technology, chosen to be the U.S./Canada
- Industry standard by the US ATSC
- Commercializes world's first 55" all-in-one
LCD TV
- Commercializes world's first 71" plasma TV
- Develops world's first Satellite- and Terrestrial-DMB handsets
- 2005
- Becomes fourth-largest supplier of the mobile
handsets market worldwide
- Develops world's first 3G UMTS DMB handset, 3G-based DVB-Hand Media FLO
- DMB Phone with time-shift function and DMB
notebook computer
- Establishes LG-Nortel, a network solution joint
venture with Nortel
- 2006
- LG Chocolate, the first model in LG's Black Label
series of premium handsets, sells 7.5 million units
worldwide
- Develops the first single-scan 60" HD PDP module and 100-inch LCD TV
- Establishes strategic partnership with UL
- Acquires the world's first IPv6 Gold Ready logo
- 2007
- Launches the industry's first dual-format,
high-definition disc player and drive
- Launches 120Hz Full HD LCD TV
- Demonstrated the world-first MIMO 4G-Enabled technologies with 3G LTE
- Won contract for GSMA's 3G campaign
- 2008
- Introduces new global brand identity: "Stylish design and smart technology, in products that fit our consumer's lives."
