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SEOUL, Korea (October 15, 2024) – LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, announced today that its high-end 14-inch laptop panels have been certified for reducing carbon emissions and validated for containing bio-based materials.

The company confirmed that the panels have become the first displays to receive Product Carbon Reduction (PCR) certification from TUV Rheinland, a leading global independent testing, inspection and certification body.

This recognition underscores LG Display’s active participation in global carbon reduction efforts and its proactive response to growing demand for eco-friendly products.

The company has reduced carbon emissions generated through its 14-inch laptop panels’ production, use, and disposal by around 8%. It achieved this by introducing a number of new technologies, including expanding the use of environmentally friendly components, increasing circuit integration through micro-processing to raise energy efficiency, and developing low-power algorithms.

Moreover, LG Display obtained Environmental Claim Validation (ECV) from global safety science organization UL Solutions for the panels’ bio-based content. ECV is granted to products whose environmental claims have been verified, such as those related to recyclable parts or hazardous substances.

The company was recognized for enhancing the eco-friendliness of its 14-inch laptop panels by using discarded sugarcane by-products to incorporate more biodegradable biomass plastic parts.

Since 2021, LG Display has developed eco-friendly products using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, which comprehensively evaluates all environmental impacts in the product life cycle. This has enabled the company to reduce its use of materials and parts, lower greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption during manufacturing, develop products that use less power, and decrease waste at the disposal stage.

“We will continue to lead the high-end IT panel market by providing differentiated value to customers who want products that offer both outstanding performance, such as high resolution and a high refresh rate, as well as eco-friendly factors,” said Jeong-ki Park, Senior Vice President and Head of Medium Display Development Group at LG Display.

SEOUL, Korea (October 6, 2024) – LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, announced today that its entire lineup of OLED TV and monitor panels, from 27 to 97 inches, have become the world’s first displays to receive Eyesafe® Circadian Certification. The recognition by Eyesafe, a U.S. -based company specializing in blue light mitigation solutions, reaffirms the advantages of LG Display’s OLED panels for promoting eye health and better sleep.

Human circadian rhythms repeat around every 24 hours. They are maintained by key hormones such as melatonin, which induces sleep, and have been found to be disrupted by nighttime exposure to screens.

Eyesafe has developed the Circadian Protection Factor (CPF) evaluation by assessing the proportion of blue light emitted by a screen and its impact on melatonin secretion. LG Display’s OLED TV and monitor panels achieved the highest circadian certification rating (CPF 50) as they emit just 36% blue light, which is the lowest in the industry.

Despite less blue light being associated with the distortion of on-screen colors, LG Display's self-emissive OLED TV and monitor panel pixels are able to maintain excellent color reproduction while minimizing their impact on circadian rhythms.

The Eyesafe Vision Health Advisory Board, composed of top global ophthalmologists and optometrists, endorses LG Display's OLED TV and monitor panels as an excellent choice for those seeking superior image quality with reduced impact on sleep.

In July, LG Display and Kookmin University confirmed the results of a clinical trial demonstrating that watching mini LED TV panels in the evening led to a 2.7% decrease in melatonin secretion among subjects, compared to an 8.1% increase among those viewing OLED TVs.

In addition to reduced blue light, LG Display’s OLED TV and monitor panels’ benefits for eye health have been recognized by reputable global certifiers, including receiving UL Solutions' Flicker Free and Intertek's Reflection Free certifications.

“We will provide differentiated customer value with human-friendly OLED that not only delivers the best image quality but also considers the health of users,” said Hyeon-woo Lee, Senior Vice President and Head of Large Display Business Unit at LG Display.

SEOUL, Korea (September 5, 2024) – LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, announced today that it is this week presenting its Stretchable displays, which can be freely stretched, folded, and twisted, at one of the world’s most exciting fashion events.

The groundbreaking displays are part of clothing and bag concepts being unveiled at 2025 S/S Seoul Fashion Week at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP).

Their appearance at Seoul Fashion Week marks another milestone after LG Display in 2022 unveiled the industry’s first Stretchable prototype that could extend from 12 to 14 inches while maintaining a high resolution of 100ppi, at the level of a regular monitor, and a full color spectrum.

Allowing designs and colors to shift from one moment to the next, the company's Stretchable displays feature on the front of garments, sleeves, and clutch bags crafted by leading Korean designers Youn-Hee Park and Chung-Chung Lee. Models are demonstrating these concepts during runway shows on September 5 and 7.

“We have been able to design future fashion concepts with new materials that have never existed before,” said Park, the head of GREEDILOUS. “Stretchable displays will bring a new paradigm to the fashion world.”

Lee, the head of LIE, added, “Stretchable displays will have a great impact on the fashion industry by enabling the implementation of designs that previously could only be imagined.”

The unprecedented design initiative is part of a national project led by South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy with the Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology to test the commercial potential of Stretchable displays, which are not only thin and lightweight but can also adhere to irregular surfaces such as clothing and skin.

Stretchable displays are therefore not only widely applicable in various industries such as fashion, wearables, and mobility, but they could revolutionize everyday life by enabling an era of IT devices that can be comfortably worn like clothes or attached to the body.

LG Display was chosen as the organizer of the national project for the development of Stretchable display applications in 2020, and has been conducting related joint research and development in an industry-academia partnership with 19 institutions. Before completing the project by the end of this year, it plans to further enhance Stretchable display capabilities, including in terms of stretchability, durability, and reliability.

“By successfully completing the Stretchable display national project, we will raise Korea’s display technology competitiveness to the next level and continue to develop products that provide differentiated customer value,” said Soo-young Yoon, CTO and Executive Vice President of LG Display.

SEOUL, Korea (August 29, 2024) – LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, announced today that it has begun mass producing its 27-inch 480Hz QHD Gaming OLED panel. The company is targeting the high-end gaming market with high-specification Gaming OLED displays that combine the industry’s highest refresh rate and fastest response time to keep up with rapidly growing demand for gaming displays.

The most important factors for gaming displays are refresh rate, the number of images displayed per second, and response time, referring to how long it takes to display graphics card signals.

This new product delivers the three-dimensional picture quality of LG Display's OLED, requiring no backlighting as each pixel lights up on its own, along with a 480Hz ultra-high refresh rate, an industry best response time of 0.02ms, and QHD (2560x1440) resolution for an optimal gaming experience.

LG Display is the only company to have achieved a refresh rate of 480Hz on a Gaming OLED panel. The higher the refresh rate, the smoother and sharper the content, even during fast-transitioning scenes. 

As well as the higher refresh rate, the new record response time of 0.02ms on a Gray to Gray (GTG) basis is 0.01ms quicker than the previous best of 0.03ms. Shorter response times, where every thousandth of a second counts, are especially advantageous for the pace of first-person shooters and racing games.

In addition, WRGB pixel structure optimization enhances the readability of text compared to conventional screens, while a four-sided borderless design based on minimized bezel width offers gamers an even greater sense of immersion.

Meanwhile, LG Display is accelerating its efforts to capture the opportunity of the fast-growing gaming display market with a full lineup of Gaming OLEDs ranging from 27 to 45 inches, incorporating a number of its own technologies.

The company’s Gaming OLEDs are equipped with META Technology, which improves picture quality by harnessing Micro Lens Array (MLA) to maximize brightness and minimize reflections that can be particularly distracting if they appear on the screen during dark scenes.

LG Display’s specialized technologies additionally include Dynamic Frequency & Resolution (DFR), allowing users to freely select between high-refresh-rate (FHD∙480Hz) and high-resolution (UHD∙240Hz) modes depending on the content, as well as Bendable OLED, which enables users to bend the screen up to 800R (the same degree of curve as a circle with a radius of 800mm) to achieve a level of curvature optimized for various game genres.

Another feature of the company’s OLED panels is that they emit half the blue light of LCD screens, protecting users from its potentially harmful effects, while they are also free from headache-causing flicker, reducing eye fatigue even during long gaming sessions.

According to global market research firm Omdia, the gaming monitor market was valued at USD 12.7767 billion this year and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 5.8% through 2027, reaching USD 15.1315 billion.

“We will create differentiated customer value and secure leadership in the high-end gaming display market based on the advantages of LG Display’s unparalleled OLED technologies, such as an ultra-high refresh rate, fast response time, and ultra-high resolution,” said Won-seok Kang, Vice President and Head of the Large Display Product Planning Division at LG Display.

SEOUL, Korea (August 21, 2024) – LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, was today recognized for its technology leadership with META Technology 2.0 at the International Meeting on Information Display (IMID) 2024. The company's TV and Gaming OLED panels featuring META Technology 2.0, which pushes the boundaries of OLED picture quality, won the ‘Korea Display of the Year’ award on the opening day of the event at the International Convention Center Jeju.

IMID is Korea’s largest display conference, bringing together more than 2,000 display experts annually. 

META Technology 2.0 raises the limits of the capabilities of large-sized OLED panels through MLA+, a pattern of 42.4 billion micro lenses (based on a 77-inch 4K display), along with the upgraded brightness enhancing algorithm, Meta Multi Booster, and the full-range brightness detail enhancing algorithm, Detail Enhancer.

By improving brightness, one of the key elements of picture quality, by approximately 42% compared to the previous generation, LG Display has achieved the brightest OLED TV panel on the market today with a maximum brightness of 3,000 nits (1 nit is the brightness produced by a single candle). This enables rich, true-to-nature colors and brightness levels that are as vivid and three-dimensional as those seen with the human eye.

During IMID 2024, LG Display will also showcase its differentiated technology leadership by presenting more than 30 of its latest research papers, including OLED performance enhancement and manufacturing innovation through AI and machine learning.

Among these, the company is introducing breakthroughs that have improved OLED panels, such as the development of high-efficiency devices and strengthening of thin-film transistor (TFT) backplane stability.

LG Display is additionally promoting its findings on the characteristics of OLED TV panels that are supportive of healthy sleep as they emit less blue light than LCDs, minimizing the impact of screen time on the secretion of the sleep hormone melatonin.

Moreover, it is presenting research results on raising display manufacturing competitiveness using AI and machine learning, including increasing production efficiency by harnessing real-time big data analysis and optimizing display design based on AI.

LG Display is also showcasing its OLEDs for TV and gaming applications that won the “Korea Display of the Year” award at the event, as well as automotive displays optimized for software-defined vehicles (SDVs) and OLEDoS for virtual reality (VR) and smartwatches.