Samsung, LG Electronics, and Other Korean Companies Sweep Innovation Awards at 'CES 2025' (Comprehensive)

Domestic companies including Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics have been globally recognized for their technological prowess by receiving the 'CES 2025 Innovation Awards' from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) in the United States. The CTA annually selects products and services from participating companies that demonstrate outstanding technology, aesthetics, and innovation ahead of the world's largest electronics and IT exhibition, CES.

According to industry sources on the 15th, Samsung Electronics received a total of 29 CES Innovation Awards, including 4 Best Innovation Awards.

In the video display category, Samsung won 3 Best Innovation Awards, which are given to the most innovative products or technologies in the industry, and received 13 innovation awards for new products and services such as the 2025 model TVs and monitors. In the home appliances category, Samsung earned 4 innovation awards for new 2025 model appliances and services, including the 'AI Vision Inside' feature that smartly manages ingredients stored in refrigerators. In the mobile category, the 'Galaxy Buds3 Pro' received a Best Innovation Award, while 'Galaxy AI,' 'Galaxy Z Fold6,' 'Galaxy Tab S10' series, and 'Galaxy Watch7' received 4 innovation awards. In the semiconductor category, three products?'LPDDR5X,' 'Exynos W1000,' and the 'ALoP (All Lenses on Prism)' image sensor solution?received innovation awards, and Harman International achieved success with the 'JBL Tour Pro3' wireless earphones also receiving an innovation award.

CES Innovation Award logo and images of Samsung Electronics award-winning products (from left: Galaxy Buds3 Pro, Exynos W1000, LPDDR5X, Galaxy AI, Galaxy Z Fold6, Galaxy Watch7, Galaxy Tab S10). Samsung Electronics

LG Electronics received a total of 24 CES Innovation Awards, including 3 Best Innovation Awards. Notably, LG OLED TVs received 6 innovation awards in total, including Best Innovation Awards in the video display and picture quality categories. The proprietary smart TV platform 'webOS,' a core of LG Electronics' platform-based service business, received an innovation award in the cybersecurity category. The AI home hub 'LG ThinQ On,' equipped with generative AI, also received a CES Innovation Award, and the 'Mobile AI Home Hub (Q9)' received innovation awards in both the artificial intelligence and smart home categories. The 'LG UltraGear OLED Gaming Monitor' won 3 awards, including Best Innovation Awards in the gaming and picture quality categories.

LG Electronics won numerous CES Innovation Awards. The photo shows the 'LG OLED TV,' which has won the CES Best Innovation Award for three consecutive years. Photo by LG Electronics

LG Innotek's 'Nexlide A+' also achieved the honor of receiving an innovation award. This product is part of the company's vehicle lighting specialty brand 'Nexlide' series. It is notable for being the industry's first to apply a surface light source (a light source that emits light uniformly across the entire surface) to a vehicle front lighting module. The module is 40% slimmer than existing products, and its brightness is approximately five times higher than existing rear lighting products.

Image with the front vehicle lighting module 'Nexlide A+' applied. LG Innotek

LS Electric and LS Cable jointly developed the next-generation superconducting innovation solution 'HyperGrid NX,' which received innovation awards in two categories: human security and smart cities. HyperGrid NX is a power supply system for internet data centers (IDC) that combines LS Electric's superconducting current limiter and LS Cable's superconducting cable.