Samsung, LG aim to foster future growth engines in 2021

Seoul, Jan 4 : South Korea’s two electronics giants Samsung Electronics and LG on Monday vowed to foster their future growth engines in 2021 as they unveiled New Year’s goals amid the pandemic.
Samsung, the world’s largest smartphone and TV vendor, said it aims to actively cope with social and economic changes induced by the COVID-19 pandemic so that 2021 can be the year that provides a platform for its future growth.
“The transition to the era of data and intelligence is accelerating with the rise of new technologies and businesses,” Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Kim Ki-nam, who leads the company’s chip business, said in the company’s New Year kickoff meeting held online.
“Let’s foster our new growth sectors systemically and look out 10 years into the future.” Samsung, also the world’s top memory chip producer, has been trying to boost its competitiveness in the foundry business in recent years and develop its next-generation quantum-dot display solutions. The company has been also seeking to expand its presence in future mobility businesses.
Kim added that Samsung will also improve its corporate social responsibility, saying it needs to better develop sustainable management of the firm.