90% of World LCD Panel Market
Taiwan and Korean makers combined account for 90 percent of the world market share for LCD panels as of the first quarter of FY 2006.
Their remarkable success in this industry is mainly due to lower prices of their products.
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Everybody in the U.S. and Europe is using a PC, a cellular phone, and a flat panel TV, but almost nobody therein is manufacturing liquid crystal display panels (LCD) used in these devices.
Everybody in Africa, the Middle East, and Central/South Americas is using a PC, a cellular phone, and a flat panel TV, but almost nobody therein is manufacturing liquid crystal display panels (LCD) used in these devices.
It seems not to be sound, though it is one example of globalization of the world economy.
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Taiwan and South Korea had been once occupied by, and under administrative control of, the Empire of Japan for decades before the end of WWII.
Look at those other countries once colonized by the U.S. and European powers, then you might find that such an accusation as the Empire of Japan had done nothing good to their subordinate regions is wrong.
Even North Korea was some 30 years ago enjoying GDP larger than, or equal to, South Korea's then.
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I really wish countries such as North Korea would abandon their nuclear-weapon development programs.
It is not nuclear bombs that they should produce but is LCD panels.
Japanese makers that once transferred their technologies to those in Taiwan and South Korea are also competing trying to offer products with higher quality and value embedded.
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The United Nations should also pass a resolution and a declaration that every poor country shall have a right to have an LCD panel industry supported by its rich member countries.
If they cannot deal with LCD panels, they really cannot deal with nuclear bombs.
Therefore, you should encourage them to choose this right direction and extend whatever small step toward it.
I will say it again, "Nuclear bombs or LCD panels?"
"IT SHONE ALL OVER WITH A BRIGHT LIGHT"