Exclusive tour of LG's OLED R&D and manufacturing facilites in South Korea
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LG brought Digital Trends along on an exclusive tour of several of its labs and factories halfway around the globe in Seoul, South Korea — and we’re bringing you inside with us.
Make no mistake: Much of what we saw was confidential information, of the “I could tell you but I’d have to kill you” sort. But we can share enough to give you a rare peek behind the curtain.
The Paju complex is made up of eight enormous buildings each seemingly larger than an airport terminal that sit on 420 acres. A ninth, called P9, is currently under construction. When completed, it will be the world’s largest OLED manufacturing plant. More than 17,000 people work at Paju, many living in enormous residential complexes on site.
We flew on the LG helicopter an hour south to the Gumi facility, where LG assembles OLED and LED televisions. It was especially big: Picture several warehouses fused together. It doesn’t require the clean-room garb we donned for phone assembly. Because technology changes so rapidly, assembly lines are designed to be modular.
The Seocho Research & Development facility. It was born in 2009, and over 3000 people work there, giving birth to high-tech ideas from a glimmering pool of silicon and ambition. And as such, it’s one of the super secretive facilities that LG guards closely: Admission to Seocho meant forfeiting cell phones and laptops, signing non-disclosure forms, and so on. Indeed, we were only allowed to record a short video outside of the building.
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Great sir number one LG
First 5:45 is advertisement we get like 2 mins of an assembly line not how they are actually made. Fuckin pathetic people are just watching advertisement masked as a documentary.
Why oled burn in????
All that testing yet my and many other OLED TVs have severe grey uniformity issues with vertical banding. What the hell is going on LG? Fix it!
Yeah, your right. Us Clevelanders love extreme BASS!. LOL
Wow caleb this is so cool..honestly
L G Life Good ❤️❤️
The Technology is fine but they need to improve the Design could be like Sony but different like if Sony make glossy products they should do it alike but with different buttons or different design but elegants
Looks very inefficient compared to Sony.
The c8 is a very good product.
South Korean people had all the jobs of producing it. WHile the US greedy manufacturer ships it to china and pay
each chinese $2 to work all day and therefore getting 98% of the whole profit with minimal losses and still manage to sell the products the USA price.
penny worth product of LG.
5:52 assembly
the idea that the same soundbar sounds different in other places is just stupid? whats the point behind that? xD
Very nice video!
dont buy LG . lot screen problem ,
Its sad that the worker people that manufacturer the tv didnt get the credits, but instead the ceo and the lg boss gets the credits instead
South Korea > China (copycat)
Guy sounds like John Mayer
nice and good look
Do they have a screen burn department?lol
Burn in 1 week
Bought an LG OLED55C8 a few months ago, and my advice to anyone is to immediately load up a verticle banding/greyscale test pattern on YouTube via the WebOS app.
My first panel was horrific to the point I wondered how on earth it even passed QC.If I boxed it up and took it back and got a new one and while it has a few hotspots in the uniformity, I was extremely pleased overall. If I had been out of my return window, I am sure it would have been a fairly decent battle with LG to get it replaced.
I❤LG
So, how are those Tv's made then? I'm still wondering.
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No footage of how tv screens are made, why?? It’s not allowed by LG and it’s top secret. Just saved your 8mins
Now oled needs to ho under $1000 and that bullshit MAP pricing needs to stop.
The most lg tv problem is burning backlight leds which they not use high quality leds such as tcl.panasonic ,sony,samsung and many others.i see many many tv sevice with huge numbers of lg tv which burn backlights.shame on lg.
I owned an LG product once. I will never buy one again. Complete junk. LG brought out a level of hatred I didn't know I could have.
De elektronische evolutie van de laatste 50 jaar, is gewoon ongelooflijk. (y)