Korean Designs Sweep iF Awards
February 14, 2005 | Levent OZLER
Korean companies have swept one of the largest international design contests. Samsung Electronics announced Monday that an unparalleled twelve of its products won an iF Design Awards from Germany's International Forum or iF.
The prize-winning products were four mobile phones including slide handsets like the SGH-E800, two notebook computers, a 46-inch and 32-inch LCD television, a DVD player, a laser printer, a vacuum cleaner, and an MP3 player.
"Forty of our products have won the iF Design Award in the last five years, including 12 this year and 8 last year," Samsung said.
LG Electronics won nine awards - for a 50-inch PDP television set with built-in HDD for video clips, portable DVD players, and electronic oven SolarDOM. The PDP television with HDD can record up to 13 hours of high-definition broadcasting. LG won three awards in 2002 and two last year.
Pantech and Curitel also won with MP3 mobile phone PH-S4000 and camcorder phone PH-L4000V.
The iF Design Award has been rewarding the best products in 15 categories since 1953. This year 1,900 products from 740 companies competed.
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