At present, LG Group has set up more than 300 overseas offices in 17 1 countries and regions. Its subsidiaries are: LG Electronics, LG Display, GS Caltex, LG Chemical, LG Life and Health, etc. , covering chemical energy, electronic appliances, communications and services.
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Development history of LG
LG Group has set up 365,438+0 research centers in six countries around the world, and R&D investment has accounted for 5% of the group's total revenue.
Through overseas research institutions, we are further strengthening our technical strength. LG Group's research institutions in Chicago, San Jose and San Diego, Sendai, Germany and Dublin, Ireland are using high-tech research equipment to vigorously carry out various scientific research activities to realize the early arrival of a high-tech society.
1945, South Korea, which was just liberated from Japanese colonial rule and capitalism began to sprout, opened a new era of chemical and electronic industries and laid the foundation for the two pillar industries of LG Group.
On 1947, the founder of LG Group, Allianz Jurui, founded Lexi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (now LG Chemical). Since then, the history of LG Group has been written on this barren land.
LG Group started its commercial activities by producing cosmetics "Weilai Cream". In order to develop cosmetic bottle caps that are not easy to break, LG Group entered the plastic industry for the first time in Korea.
When the Korean War broke out 1952, LG Group made this decision without indomitable will and strong enterprise spirit.
LG Group has produced plastic products such as combs, soap boxes, toothbrushes and tableware, which have contributed to improving people's living standards.
1954, LG successfully developed the earliest toothpaste in Korea with its own technology, defeated Colgate toothpaste in the United States, quickly occupied the domestic market in Korea, and made contributions to improving the national health level.
LG Group established Lexi Petroleum Company on 1959 and began to produce soap and glycerin.
At the same time, in the process of expanding the plastic industry, LG Group established the Golden Star Society (LG Electronics) in 1958, and produced the first vacuum tube radio A-50 1 in South Korea in 1959, which opened a new era of South Korea's electronic industry and set up the first comprehensive electronic product factory in South Korea.
In this way, in the 1950s, LG Group had laid the foundation for the two pillars of its corporate activities, namely, the chemical and electrical and electronic industries, and played a pioneering role in the industrial development of South Korea.
1962, LG group established Korean cable industry (now LG cable), which expanded the field of electrical and electronic industry. From 65438 to 0967, LG Group established Hunan Refinery (now GS Caltex), the first private refinery in Korea, and entered the field of basic raw materials industry, laying the foundation for its entry into heavy chemical industry.
Besides, Lexi Chemical (now LG Chemical) produced the earliest Korean synthetic detergent "Haitai" in 1964, and also produced kitchen detergent and liquid shampoo "Shampoo" in 1967.
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