KEGF 2009 Attracts Huge Crowd

3,000 foreign buyers flock to the electronics show, negotiations total $1.6 bln

The Korea Electronics Grand Fair (KEGF) 2009 ran from Oct. 13-16 at Kintex in Goyang City near Seoul, drawing 80,000 viewers and leaders of electronics companies, along with some 3,000 foreign buyers. Korean and foreign firms totaling 857 from 16 countries put on exhibit the latest and best electronic gadgets at their 2,176 booths at the event, the Korea Electronics Association (KEA) said recently.
The participating electronics firms included such notables as Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics from Korea and Hewlett Packard, Nissan and 3M among the foreign firms from 16 countries including the United States, Japan, China and Taiwan. Samsung and LG electronics operated large booths to exhibit their latest strategic and high-tech products.
The KEA said unlike many similar foreign exhibitions overseas that had to curtail the scale of their events due to the economic slump, the KEGF this year retained the same scale as last year and the number of visitors including foreign buyers expanded by 120 percent, KEA officials said.
Samsung put on display its latest digital gadgets at its 1,353-square-meter booth with the concept of a “digital garden.” At the entrance of its booth stood a large structure made with LED TV sets and an “echo zone” to impress on the viewers how energy can be saved and yet boost the effectiveness of resources through their new products.
In the display sector, the company exhibited 3-D TVs, electronic panel solutions, business projectors and new digital frames. In the cell phone sector, the company put on display the new ‘Omnia 2’ smart phones and luxury phones designed by Georgio Armani.
In the semiconductor sector, the company displayed various types of chips including 40-nano DDR3, low power and environmentally friendly 256Gb SSD, 1 Gb mobile D-ram and 512 Mb P-ram and other memory chips using less power mass produced by Samsung.
Samsung also put on show 32, 40, 46 and 55-inch panels and others including a 55-inch full HD 3D 240 Hz TV set that the company developed using ‘True 240Hz’ technology.
LG Electronics, too, did not want to be left behind other rivals in the industry and brought to the show a variety of its latest electronic gadgets. The company put on display a borderless TV, with no edges around the screen, a new chocolate phone with a 4-inch screen, a new Tromm washing machine with six functions, a 15-inch Amoled TV that is only 3.2 mm thick, 3-D LCD TV and a 120 inch multi-vision PDP.
In the area of cell phones, the companies displayed new phones and some to be marketed later in a number of zones such as the touch zone, VG zone and the business and wine zone.



















LG Electronics set up its own Echo Zone to show off its cell phones with solar-rechargeable batteries, a bio-plastic phone made with environment friendly material and a LED TV that can save up to 70 percent of the power used by existing TV models.
Hynix Semiconductor displayed at its booth a 44-nano DDR D-ram chip and Dong High-tech presented a multi high electric pressure cell, among others.
Among foreign companies at the event, Nissan showed off its collision prevention robot cars; Epson a giro-sensor helicopter; and Murata a robot on a bicycle, which attracted a lot of attention.
KEA, the organizer of the event, said the viewers at the annual show would total around 80,000 with over 3,000 foreign buyers in attendance conducting sales negotiations on $1.6 billion worth of products.
At the event’s opening ceremony, Vice President Shin Ki-sub of LG Electronics won the Industrial Merit Silver Medal for his services given for the development of the electronics industry in Korea, along with 59 others whose achievements for the development of the industry were recognized with the Presidential and Prime Minister’s citations and letters. Chairman Yoon Jong-yong of KEGF presented the awards.
Among the dignitaries at the event included Minister Choi Kyung-hwan of the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Gov. Kim Moon-soo of Gyeonggi Province and others totaling some 500 in attendance at the opening ceremony. nw

Colorful LED TVs on display at the Korea Electronics Show 2009 held at Kintex in Goyang near Seoul Oct. 13-16.

A group of dignitaries at the electronics show including Gov. Kim Moon-soo of Gyeonggi Province, 3L, and Chairman Yoon Jong-yong of the Korea Electronics Association, 2L, looks around the electronic products on display.

Photo above is a scene of Samsung Electronics display facility. Photo below shows borderless TVs on display by LG Electronics.

Minister Choi Kyung-hwan of the Ministry of Knowledge Economy delivers a congratulatory speech at the opening of the Korea Electronics Show 2009 at Kintex in Goyang near Seoul Oct. 13.