Samsung Electronics is facing difficulties in fulfilling contracts with major U.S. companies due to Japan’s export restrictions on Korea. Key parts and materials needed to fulfill foundry contracts are no longer coming from Japan, and the company’s plans to grow its non-memory chip market is also in danger. “Trust with customers is important in the […]
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Research Group Identifies Several Obstacles to Domestically Producing Hydrogen Fluoride
A local research group has cited environmental regulations as one of the primary obstacles to domestically producing hydrogen fluoride, one of the three materials Japan recently restricted exports of to South Korea. A research group dedicated to modernizing the industrial structure of the semiconductor sector said in a report released Sunday that environmental regulations on […]
EXPLAINER-The high-tech trade dispute rooted in Japan’s wartime history
TOKYO/SEOUL, July 8 (Reuters) – Japan has tightened curbs on exports of high-tech materials used in smartphone displays and chips to South Korea, upping the ante in a decades-old dispute with Seoul over South Koreans forced to work for Japanese firms during World War Two. The export curbs highlight how Japan, the world’s third-largest economy, […]
Japan-Korea Spat Threatens to Upend Global Technology Chain
Samsung and Hynix are the most affected by Japan-imposed curbs The dispute underscores again the global nature of tech supply Resurgent tensions between Japan and South Korea threaten to wallop chipmakers from Samsung Electronics Co. to SK Hynix Inc., upsetting a carefully choreographed global supply chain by smothering the production of memory chips and other […]
Export curbs ignite boycotts in S. Korea against Japanese goods
In a protest of Japanese export restrictions, members of the association of small and midsize retailers stomp on boxes showing logos of Japanese companies near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on July 5. (Provided by The Dong-A Ilbo) SEOUL–South Koreans are boycotting Japanese products and canceling sightseeing trips to Japan in anger over Tokyo’s imposition […]
Japan vs South Korea a terrible omen for globalization
Had Abe and Moon met in Osaka, they might have realized that both their economies are collateral damage as Trump and Xi trade barbs The most important meeting at last week’s Group of Twenty summit in Osaka is one that didn’t happen: between host Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in. Sure, US President […]
Moon administration should act to repair damaged ties with Japan
The South Korean government should take responsible action to restore the collapsed bilateral relationship of trust with Japan. The Japanese government tightened export controls against South Korea on three items, including hydrogen fluoride needed to produce semiconductors and other devices. Exporters are now required to apply to the government for each shipment, and the screening […]
Japan’s testy trade row strikes at Samsung
[HONG KONG] Samsung Electronics is caught in a new trade row. Japan has curbed exports to South Korea of vital materials used to make chips and display screens over an old wartime spat. Hardest hit may be the US$260 billion handset-maker, which for now is expecting a recovery after a dismal second quarter. The two […]
The industry can stay afloat for about 4 months’
Semiconductor expert says Korea can survive on stockpile – for now Japan tightened restrictions on exporting three core materials used in semiconductor, TV and smartphone production to Korea from Thursday. On Monday, Japan said that it would make sales more difficult to Korea of fluorinated polyimide, used for displays, and hydrogen fluoride – or etching […]
Japan invokes export controls against S. Korea
The government on Thursday invoked a measure to tighten export controls against South Korea on three items, including hydrogen fluoride needed to produce semiconductors and other devices. Under the measure, exporters are required to apply to the government for each shipment, and screening of the applications will take about 90 days. The move could affect […]