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LG Electronics
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South Korean multinational electronics company
OverviewAI-generated
LG Electronics, legally known as LG전자(주), is an active company established in 1958. The organization is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, and maintains a presence in Englewood Cliffs, United States. It operates as a corporation with a total revenue of 48200000000 and employs 90578 people.
The company’s official websites include lge.co.kr and lg.com. Its legal status is active under the jurisdiction of South Korea. In the United States, it is identified as LG (United States) with an entity type of other and a state of incorporation in Illinois. The organization has 400000 social media followers.
Synthesized by Vinony from 33 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, GLEIF, SEC EDGAR, ROR, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Company type
- Public
- Traded as
- KRX : 066570 LSE : LGLD
- Isin
- US50186Q2021
- Industry
- Consumer electronics , Home appliances , Computer hardwares
- Predecessor
- GoldStar (1958–2002)
- Founded
- October 1958 ; 67 years ago ( 1958-10 ) (as GoldStar) March 1995 ( 1995-03 ) (as LG Electronics; re-incorporated in 2002)
- Founder
- Koo In-hwoi (The original GoldStar)
- Headquarters
- LG Twin Tower 128, Yeouido-dong , Yeongdeungpo District, Seoul, South Korea
- Area served
- Worldwide
- Key people
- Kwang-Mo Koo ( chairman ) Lyu Jae-cheol ( CEO )
- Products
- See products listing
- Revenue
- ₩ 89.2 trillion ( US$ 77.98 billion) (2025)
- Operating income
- ₩ 2.48 trillion ( US$ 2.17 billion) (2025)
- Net income
- ₩ 1.22 trillion ( US$ 1.07 billion) (2025)
- Total assets
- ₩ 68.62 trillion ( US$ 59.99 billion) (2025)
- Total equity
- ₩ 28.55 trillion ( US$ 24.96 billion) (2025)
- Owner
- LG Corporation (33%)
- Number of employees
- 75,000+ (2022)
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company
- Founded
- 1958
- Location
- Englewood Cliffs, United States
- Also known as
- LG Electronics
- Status
- Active
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- public company
- Country
- South Korea
- Founded by
- Koo In-hwoi
- Headquarters
- Seoul
- Owned by
- LG Group
- Parent organization
- LG Group
- Employees
- 90578
- Revenue
- 48200000000
- Stock exchange
- Korean Stock Exchange
- Official website
- live.lge.co.kr
- Image
- LG Twin Towers,Beijing China.jpg
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- MAC Address Block Large ID
- 30766F
- inception
- 1958-10-00
- product or material produced
- refrigerator
- Commons category
- LG Electronics
- topic's main category
- Category:LG Electronics
- WordLift URL
- data.thenextweb.com/tnw/entity/lg_electronics
- social media followers
- 400000
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/lg
- location of formation
- Seoul
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Encyclopedic overview
LG Electronics Inc. (Korean: 엘지 전자; RR: Elji Jeonja) is a South Korean multinational major appliance and consumer electronics corporation headquartered in Yeouido-dong, Seoul, South Korea. LG Electronics is a part of LG Corporation, the fourth largest chaebol in South Korea, and often considered as the pinnacle of LG Corp with the group's chemical and battery division LG Chem. It comprises four business units: home entertainment, mobility, home appliances & air solutions, and business solutions.
LG Electronics' product portfolio includes televisions and audio products, home appliances such as refrigerators, dishwashers, microwaves, washing machines, tumble dryers and air conditioners, as well as commercial and industrial products. The company is associated with technologies such as OLED television displays, the webOS smart TV platform, and the LG ThinQ smart home ecosystem.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “LG Electronics” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.