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2000~today

A giant leap toward the future

LG LED board in Time Square, Manhattan, New York, the USA 71-inch PDP TV Polarized light film production line

LG has adopted new visions for the 21st century. Its new visions are to develop a corporation where employees reach their full potential, shareholders maximize their value, and consumers are satisfied and touched emotionally.

On March 1, 2003, LG launched its comprehensive holding company, LG Corp. LG became the first major Korean corporation to introduce a holding company structure with advanced corporate governance. By converting its structure into the holding company system, where investment and business divisions are separated, LG committed itself to overcoming chronic problems that most of Korea's large companies had in governance, especially in circulatory investments between subsidiaries.

LG is now striving to fulfill its goal of becoming a first-class corporation by embracing "Jeong-Do" Management* and continuous innovation.

Timeline 2000~today

  • 2000
    LG Arts center opened
  • 2001
    LG Electronics becomes the world's first to develop organic EL for IMT-2000
  • 2002
    LG Philips LCD (currently LG Display) begins production of the world's first fifth generation TFT-LCD
  • 2003
    LG launches the holding company structure
    LG Life Science's "Factive" receives new-drug approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  • 2004
    LG Electronics develops the world's first land-based digital multimedia broadcasting phone
    LG Electronics unveils 3G mobile phones for Hutchison
  • 2005
    For eight years in a row, LG Electronics is number one in the world for sales of optical storage devices
    LG Electronics opens the LG Digital Reading Room in the National Library of Russia
    LG Chem opens a research center in Moscow, Russia
    LG Electronics develops the world's fastest 3D game phone
  • 2006
    LG Electronics wins the 2006 Hong Kong Design Award for its Chocolate phone
    LG Electronics unveils the world's thinnest ceiling-bound system air conditioner
    LG Innotek develops the world's thinnest LCD (1.48 mm)
    LG Electronics unveils the world's slimmest (33-cm) flat-panel TV
    LG Philips' LCD (currently LG Display) was awarded the Best Corporation prize by BSC Management and Administration
  • 2007
    LG Electronics is ranked first in the global CDMA market for two consecutive years
    LG publishes its 60-year history
    LG Chem announces a merger with LG Petrochem
    LG Tromm's washer seizes the number one spot in the U.S. frontloading market
The English translation of "Jeong-Do" is "the right way." "Jeong-Do" Management is the way we display our uncompromising integrity in pursuing LG's management principles
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