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LG Electronics likely to shut mobile phone business, says report

LG may share its decision on the business' fate with employees as soon as early April, the DongA report said

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Sales in the fourth quarter of KRW 18.78 trillion ($16.76 billion) grew 16.9 per cent from the same period of 2019

Kyungji Cho | Bloomberg
LG Electronics may shutter its mobile communication business rather than sell it, DongA Ilbo reports, citing an unidentified person in the electronics industry.
 
Negotiations with Germany’s Volkswagen AG and Vietnam’s Vingroup JSC on possible sale of the smartphone business seemed to have failed, according to the report.
 
LG Electronics’ CEO Kwon Bong-eok said in January that all options were on the table for the loss-making operation. The company was said to have halted development last month of phones with a rollable display, and DongA said Sunday that LG has shelved a planned first-half rollout of all new smartphones.

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