LG Electronics

LG Electronics began in October 1958 as GoldStar, founded by Koo In-hwoi, and took the LG Electronics name in 1995. It is part of the LG Group, has its headquarters in the LG Twin Towers in Yeouido, Seoul, and is listed on the Korea Exchange.

It builds consumer and commercial electronics: LG OLED televisions and the webOS smart TV platform, home appliances, LG gram laptops and monitors, air conditioning and heat pumps, and vehicle components such as in-vehicle infotainment and telematics. Its business is organised into Home Appliance Solution, Media Entertainment Solution, Vehicle Solution and Eco Solution.

Wikipedia gives about 75,000 employees in 2022; LG does not publish a current figure on the pages we opened. Software and research work is spread over R&D arms in Seoul (Seocho, Yangjae, Gasan, Magok), Incheon and Changwon, and, according to LG's newsroom, 22 research institutes abroad in North America, Europe, Japan, India and Vietnam. Named sites include the LG Science Park in Magok, the LG Silicon Valley AI Lab in Santa Clara, an R&D centre in Hanoi with branches in Haiphong and Da Nang (more than 1,100 researchers), and LG Soft India in Bengaluru.