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 IBM, the company that has registered the highest number of patent registrations in the United States over the last 11 years, established an R&D center, the IBM Ubiquitous Computing Lab, in Gangnam, Seoul, in June 2004. The company held an opening ceremony with the Ministry of Information and Communication's Institute of Information and Technology Assessment (IITA). IITA and IBM will each invest US$16 million in the institute over four years and will share the intellectual property rights of R&D activities. The institute is especially dedicated to telematics and embedded software, and employs 25 researchers. |
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| Siemens |
 The engineering and electronics giant Siemens announced in June 2004 that it would invest 100 million euros (KRW143 billion) in Korea over five years. The Germany-based multinational said the investment was intended to establish a forward base of information communications and network equipment in Korea, and to develop products for the global market. By early June 2004, Siemens had invested KRW54 billion, and bought a 38.7 percent controlling stake in Dasan Networks, having developed world-class Internet communications equipment, Dasan Networks is a frontrunner in Korea's broadband market. Siemens said it would develop Dasan Networks into an R&D center, and distribute communications and network equipment to world markets, including those in Europe, the United States and Asia. |
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| Microsoft |
 In March 2005, the world's most faOverseas IT Support Centers software company, Microsoft, opened a mobile research center, "Microsoft Innovation Lab," in Korea. US$30 million is earmarked for the project for the next three years. Korea's mature market conditions played a key role in luring Microsoft to set up in Korea. Korea has the optimal market conditions for research centers, with all the necessary conditions to set up next generation communication market infrastructure; most of the world's top quality mobile device manufacturers are active in Korea. In the next three years, the Microsoft Mobile Innovation Lab will be run by 30 professionals composed of engineers from its main headquarters and from Korea. |
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| Sun |
 Korea is the Asia-Pacific's emerging hub for Java-related technology development. Sun Microsystems officially launched the "Korea Java Research Center" in April 2005. The investment represents Sun Microsystems' strategic determination to expand Java's dominant position in enterprise computing area into the ubiquitous area. Given the advanced technological level of Korea's mobile-related companies, particularly in the mobile phone-related platform area, Sun Microsystems seems to have concluded that there is no better place to set up its R&D hub than Korea.
Sun Microsystems will be investing over US$50 million in the next four years to develop mobile and embedded software related next generation Java technology. In addition to Korea's IT capacity, Sun Microsystems highly evaluated the rapid progress of Korea's basic science research field, notably in the areas of BT. Accordingly, it has formed a strategic alliance with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, or KISTI, to attract R&D centers related to grid computing. |
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| ON Semiconductor |
 ON Semiconductor, the US power management semiconductor company, opened its Solution Engineering Center in Korea on May 17, 2005. The Center was opened to develop and provide a power management solution that is exclusive to mobile devices, primarily mobile phones. To this end, ON Semiconductor has allocated some areas of its center to major Korean handset manufacturers, including Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and Pantech & Curitel, so they can develop the boards and chips appropriate to the power management solutions that ON Semiconductor will be providing. ON Semiconductor is planning to invest US$6 million by 2007.
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| HP |
 HP is taking an active part in developing technologies related to Korea's next generation ICT growth strategy, IT839. In October 2004, HP opened the Korea Development Center (KDC) as its outpost for the development of next-generation technology related to RFID and ubiquitous mobility. In the next five years, over US$40 million is expected to be channeled into this center which is located at HP Korea's Yeouido headquarters (approx. 990 m2). In fact, KDC is more than just an R&D center for HP. It plans to leverage KDC in using Korea as the test bed for commercialization of next generation technologies.
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