The government is empowering the display industry by including it in national strategic technologies. As China’s offensive intensifies, it has to compete with the technology gap, but expectations are high for the transparent display field.
This is reporter Jeongyeon’s report.
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It looks like a subway window, but it’s not just glass, it’s a transparent display.
Weather information is displayed and you can see which stations you are passing.
Approaching the cake display stand, the display that I thought was a glass panel shows the types of cakes and price descriptions.
In front of the Egyptian mural, a transparent display moves and tells the meaning of ancient characters.
It can be used in a variety of ways, to the extent that displays are placed on walls, shelves, and even on the floor you walk on.
Our company is the only company in the world that has successfully mass-produced this transparent OLED product with high transparency enough to replace glass windows.
[여준호/LG디스플레이 그룹장 : 디스플레이 산업이 많이 성숙해서 어려움을 겪고 있는데 향후 미래 성장을 고려해서 여러 가지 적극적인 시장 공략을 준비하고 있습니다.]
In the display market, China took the top spot last year with a market share of more than 40% in this sector by promoting cheap LCDs.
Korea is reducing LCD and focusing on the high value-added OLED market, occupying more than 70%.
Following semiconductor, battery, and vaccine, the government added the display industry as a national strategic technology and decided to give tax benefits to research and development and facility investment from next year.
[박재근/반도체디스플레이기술학회장 : 중국의 추격이 너무 무섭단 말이에요. 중국은 적자 나면 다 정부가 보조해 줄 정도인데, 그래서 (우리도) 세액 공제하는 퍼센티지가 더 많아야 된다는 게 핵심이죠.]
The size of the OLED market led by domestic companies is expected to exceed 53 trillion won next year.
(Video coverage: Park Hyeon-cheol, video editing: Kim Jong-mi)