LG Corp. Chairman and CEO Kwang Mo Koo sends 2025 New Year Address to 270,000 global employees on December 19

• "Let's Shape LG's Future with the DNA of Challenge and Change We've had Since Day 1"
• Highlighting LG's Spirit – the DNA of challenge and change since Day 1

-        "LG's Day 1 spirit of choosing what others wouldn't dare comes from our DNA of challenge and change as we serve our customers. With this spirit, we have built a history of firsts and bests."
-        "Creating distinguished customer value for our customers is no easy task. It often comes with fear of failure. But just as what feels familiar today was once an innovation, we haven't let fear of failure hold us back. Instead, we've kept pushing forward, taking on new challenges and driving change."
-        "LG has become the company it is today by taking on new challenges and creating value that didn't exist before. With our spirit of challenge and change, we'll continue to deliver essential and exceptional value to our future customers."

-        "Let's shape a future where LG is a name people can't imagine living without, by staying true to our spirit of innovation and commitment to our customers."

• Bringing LG's vision to life: Creating essential and exceptional value for future customers

-        "LG's Day 1 spirit of choosing what others wouldn't dare comes from our DNA of challenge and change as we serve our customers. With this spirit, we have built a history of firsts and bests."
-        "Creating distinguished customer value for our customers is no easy task. It often comes with fear of failure. But just as what feels familiar today was once an innovation, we haven't let fear of failure hold us back. Instead, we've kept pushing forward, taking on new challenges and driving change."
-        "LG has become the company it is today by taking on new challenges and creating value that didn't exist before. With our spirit of challenge and change, we'll continue to deliver essential and exceptional value to our future customers."

-        "Let's shape a future where LG is a name people can't imagine living without, by staying true to our spirit of innovation and commitment to our customers."

-        "From AI and smart solutions that enhance the value of customers' time and enable them to unleash their infinite potential, along with biotech and cleantech that create a healthy life and a clean planet, innovative ideas taking root across our organization will blossom into smile-worthy values for our future customers."

• The New Year Address featured several LG employees sharing cases of distinguished customer value they're creating. It was filmed in Connectwin, a shared space that was renovated at LG Twin Towers earlier this year.
• Since the 2019 New Year address, LG has outlined its direction with a focus on customers, further developing its customer value management message each year: addressing customer pain points in 2020, building deep understanding and empathy in 2021, delivering valuable customer experiences in 2022, creating the customer value I bring in 2023, and focusing on distinguished customer value in 2024.

SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Corp. Chairman and CEO Kwang Mo Koo delivered his annual New Year's greetings via video email to approximately 270,000 LG employees worldwide. This continues a tradition begun in 2022 of delivering the New Years's message just prior to the beginning of the year to encourage employees to close the year peacefully and calmly, and plan for the upcoming year. This year's email was titled "Hello, this is Kwang Mo Koo" and sent on December 19 in the morning (KST).

Chairman Koo began the video message on a note of gratitude, calling employees "Customer Value Creators," noting that thanks to their efforts "2024 was another great year of creating distinguished value and that they had brought the company one step closer to customers."

• Highlighting LG's Spirit – the DNA of challenge and change since Day 1

In the 2025 New Year address, Chairman Koo emphasized LG's founding spirit as being rooted in the DNA of challenge and change we've had since Day 1, urging the company to deliver essential and exceptional value to future customers. He also reflected on the past, noting that "LG began with the goal of providing products and services that are truly needed by customers. The Day 1 spirit of choosing what others would not dare reflects our DNA of taking on challenges and driving change."¹⁾

1) Original quote by Founding Chairman Yonam In-hwoi Koo: "Choose what others overlook and start with the things that people cannot live without. Once you begin, push forward boldly."

Chairman Koo further emphasized that LG's efforts to bring joy and happiness to customers' lives have led to bold innovations, creating a history of firsts and bests across various fields and delivering distinguished value that elevates customers' lives to the next level. ²⁾

"Creating distinguished value for customers is no easy task. It requires stepping away from familiar ways, and it comes with worries and fear of failure," said Chairman Koo. "But just as what feels familiar today was once an innovation, we haven't stopped at failure or settled for past successes. Instead, we've continued to challenge and drive change."

"LG has become the company it is today by taking on new challenges and creating value that didn't exist before. With our spirit of challenge and change, we'll continue to deliver essential and exceptional value to our future customers," said Chairman Koo. "Together, let's shape a future where LG is a name people can't imagine living without by staying true to our spirit of innovation and commitment to our customers."

2) LG's history of firsts and bests

-        1947 Korea's first cosmetics – Lucky Cream
-        1952 Korea's first plastic product made by injection molding
-        1959 Korea's first radio
-        1966 Korea' first black-and-white TV / 2002 World's first 52-inch LCD HDTV / 2011 World's first 55-inch OLED for TV / 2023 World's first wireless OLED TV / 2024 LG OLED TV ranked No.1 by consumer media in 14 countries
-        1969 Korea's first washing machine / 2011 World's first clothing care system – LG Styler / 2023 Next-generation shoe care solution –ShoeCase and ShoeCare / 2024 LG refrigerator, washing machine, dryer ranked No.1 by Consumer Reports
-        1999 Korea's first lithium-ion battery / 2009 World's first mass-produced EV batteries / 2024 World's No.1 secondary battery patent holder
-        2007 - present ABS global market share No.1 / 2020 World's first mass production of white recycled ABS
-        2003 Korea's first FDA-approved new drug – FACTIVE / 2023 Korea's best growth hormone - Eutropin / 2024 Korea's best new diabetes drug – Zemiglo
-        1998 World's first CDMA PCS wireless data service / 2013 World's first nationwide LTE network / 2019 World's first commercial 5G network service
-        2024 Korea's first homegrown open-source large language model – EXAONE 3.0

• Bringing LG's vision to life: Creating essential and exceptional value for future customers

In the 2025 New Year address, Chairman Koo shared LG's vision for the future, one that delivers essential and exceptional value for future customers:

"From AI and smart solutions that enhance the value of customers' time and enable them to unleash their infinite potential, along with biotech and cleantech that create a healthy life and a clean planet, innovative ideas taking root across our organization will blossom into smile-worthy values for our future customers.

"We aim to make AI and robots a seamless part of daily life, giving people more time to focus on meaningful and enjoyable pursuits," he said, elaborating on his broad vision for the company. "Through healthcare solutions and innovative new medicines, we will help people spend more time with their loved ones. By reducing carbon emissions and waste and transforming them into valuable resources, we will ensure clean water and air for everyone. And with advanced industrial solutions, we will help customers overcome challenges and unlock their full potential."

In doing so, the chairman brought to life LG's vision for the future of creating value that truly matters to customers.

• The New Year Address featured several LG employees sharing cases of distinguished customer value they're creating.

This year's video message also featured several LG employees who shared the distinguished value they are working to create for future customers in areas such as AI, bio and clean tech, and smart homes.

"We're developing AI home solutions with AI-powered appliances and robots communicate naturally with users and provide personalized care," explained Sung Wook Hong of LG Electronics' Home Appliance Solution Company. "We want our homes to handle chores so that customers can focus on more enjoyable and meaningful activities."

"Our goal is to develop effective and safe therapies that help cancer patients live healthy and happy to their full life expectancy" said Hyungjin Cho of LG Chem's Life Sciences Company as he shared his vision for his work to develop new medicine to fight cancer.

"We're developing a solution for collecting carbon dioxide generated in thepetrochemical processes and using it as an ingredient for producing plastics," said Jae Young Park of LG Chem's COâ‚‚ Plastic Project, adding that "just about everything needs plastic these days, so we want to be able to share our innovation with the next generation so they can enjoy summers that are not hotter than the past."

Chairman Koo then expressed his support for the employees. "The challenges and changes, big and small, that each of us drives in our respective roles are all incredibly valuable," he said.

The video message was filmed against the backdrop of the Connectwin, located on the lower levels of LG Twin Towers in Yeouido, Seoul. The newly renovated common space was unveiled earlier this year with a dual meaning behind the name: connecting the Twin Towers and connecting to win.

Since his 2019 New Year's message, where he placed an emphasis on "prioritizing customers as a future direction of LG," Chairman Koo has consistently refined his message of customer value management through annual addresses.

In 2019, he defined three unique customer values for LG: "transforming customer's lives with satisfaction," "being ahead of others," and "continuously creating value." In 2020, he called for a focus on identifying customer pain points as the starting point for realizing customer value. In 2021, he emphasized the importance of deeply understanding and empathizing with customers through micro-segmentation. In 2022, he proposed creating valuable experiences that customers would not want to live without. In 2023, he askedd each member to search for the customer value they could create, inspiring employees to take the lead in value creation and prioritizing customer satisfaction. In 2024, he urged staff to commit itself to creating distinguished customer value to position LG as the market-leading customer experience innovator.

** The press release content is from PR Newswire. Bastille Post is not involved in its creation. **



LG Corp. Chairman and CEO Kwang Mo Koo sends 2025 New Year Address to 270,000 global employees on December 19

• Innovative technologies enable retailers to implement intelligent stores at scale to deliver smarter, more responsive shopping experiences
• Industry partners to display production-ready AI solutions for loss prevention, digital twins, AI agents, customer analytics, and more

SAN JOSE, Calif. and NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Retail's Big Show -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for AI/ML, HPC, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, today announced collaboration with technology partners for AI-powered intelligent in-store retail solutions designed to meet increasing customer expectations with scalability, improved productivity and increased profitability.

"AI is reshaping shopping experiences, enabling real-time analysis of video and other data to give retailers actionable insights to optimizing staff efficiency, reducing shrinkage, increasing profits, and avoiding stock-outs," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. "By combining Supermicro's complete and scalable AI platforms with NVIDIA RTX PRO accelerated computing solutions, we're enabling retailers to build intelligent stores that maximize the benefits of AI-driven applications."

According to the latest NVIDIA State of AI in Retail & CPG report, 89% of respondents reported that AI is helping to increase annual revenue, while 95% said it is helping decrease annual costs, highlighting the measurable business impact retailers are already achieving because of AI¹.

For more information, please visit https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/edge/servers

Supermicro Complete and Scalable Edge AI Infrastructure

Retail-centric AI applications require sub-second responsiveness which is only possible, at scale, if data is processed directly at the edge. Supermicro's Edge AI infrastructure enables the deployment of solutions in distributed environments, such as intelligent retail stores and supply chains, to provide a complete solution.

Deploying at the edge presents a myriad of unique challenges in comparison to the data center. Supermicro's broad Edge AI portfolio of products helps customers and partners overcome these challenges while striking the right balance between performance and ROI.

For deployments in harsh environments where conditioned space is not available, the fanless E103 series of products bring AI processing power where it couldn't go before. Supermicro also offers a fanned small form factor E300 series systems with AI capabilities.

When there is a demanding AI workload at the edge, customers and partners can turn to numerous systems capable of holding the latest discrete GPUs for AI acceleration. Ranging from 1U short-depth to larger 4U form factors, solutions can be right-sized to meet the customer's needs by enabling the latest generation of NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell series.

Supermicro Intelligent Store Partners

Supermicro is collaborating with ecosystem partners including Everseen, Kinetic Vision, ALLSIDES, LiveX, WobotAI, and Aible, to create intelligent stores that positively impact day-to-day retail operations as well as longer term supply chain management.

• Everseen's Evercheck solution uses Vision AI to help reduce shrink and improve staff productivity and customer experiences. Built on the Everseen Vision AI platform, Evercheck detects, and deters recovery of unwanted behaviors at checkout, helping retailers recover losses and streamline front-of-store operations.

"Everseen has spent years working alongside some of the world's largest retailers, understanding the realities of the store floor and solving loss challenges where they actually happen," said Joe White, CEO of Everseen. "By partnering with Supermicro and leveraging NVIDIA-accelerated computing, Evercheck delivers real-time computer vision at the edge - transforming store activity into intelligence retailers can act on immediately."

• Wobot AI, focused on building Video AI Agents for the physical world, will be demonstrating how the cameras retailers already own can be turned into systems that continuously observe, learn, and produce usable insight. By converting ordinary CCTV infrastructure into autonomous agents that recognize patterns, identify friction, and surface decisions, Wobot's AI Agents enable retailers to improve day-to-day operations with practical and measurable outcomes.

"By working with Supermicro and NVIDIA at the edge, we're able to deploy Video AI Agents in a way that's scalable, reliable, and focused on real-time operational insight—not experimentation," said Will Kelso, President, Revenue & Growth at Wobot AI.

• LiveX AI - "Retail is entering an era where AI agents become the default interaction layer between brands and customers," said Jerry Li, Co-Founder and CEO of LiveX AI. "With NVIDIA's accelerated AI and Supermicro's edge infrastructure, we can deploy a helpful, human-like AI agent directly in physical spaces—such as kiosks or holograms—bringing the speed, intelligence, and continuity of digital experiences into brick-and-mortar environments. This collaboration makes AI agents usable, in real time, where customers actually are."

• • Kinetic Vision and ALLSIDES are bundling their expertise for a True Digital Twin solution designed to develop, test, and optimize supply chain processes, checkout stations, and other complex systems.

"The combination of Supermicro's high reliability optimized infrastructure and NVIDIA's accelerated computing stack gives Kinetic Vision the foundation to innovate at speed. Together, we are helping retailers move from experimentation to production-ready AI solutions that drive measurable operational and customer experience gains," says Jeremy Jarratt, Kinetic Vision CEO.

Franz Tschimben, CEO at ALLSIDES, adds: "Building on the combined strengths of NVIDIA and Supermicro, we deliver a high-fidelity 3D digital twin data layer for AI training that enables retailers to power applications across the entire retail value chain — from training robots with physical AI, to production and production planning, virtual store layouts and consumer feedback systems, and e-commerce integrations — helping drive higher conversion rates, faster decision-making, and greater operational efficiency."

• Supermicro will also feature Superb AI's retail-focused VSS solution, combining Superb AI's proprietary VLM with NVIDIA AI Blueprint components to enable subjective reasoning capabilities, natural-language search, automated incident summarization, and customer behavior insights across store camera networks.
• Aible will highlight its automated agent solution, which analyzes vast amounts of data across millions of patterns to explain changes in retail KPIs, such as the average purchase amount or number of purchases. Aible will also demonstrate how the latest NVIDIA Retail blueprints can be incorporated into agentic solutions that automatically customize customer experiences and optimize retail operations at scale.

Arijit Sengupta, CEO of Aible, adds, "Today's market and labor conditions are constantly changing. Only autonomous agents can understand and adjust to these ever-changing patterns of customer behavior, inventory costs and supply, and labor access at scale. Working with NVIDIA and Supermicro, Aible brings autonomous agents subject to business user review to the retail edge."

These intelligent retail solutions will be demonstrated by Supermicro and its partners at NRF: Retail's Big Show in New York City from January 11-13. To learn more about AI-powered retail applications or Supermicro's AI Infrastructure solutions, visit Supermicro booth #5281 and attend its speaking session featuring PepsiCo and Kinetic Vision. For more details, please visit www.supermicro.com/NRF

¹Source: "NVIDIA State of AI in Retail and CPG" 2026

About Super Micro Computer, Inc.

Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first to market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, switch systems, software, and support services. Supermicro's motherboard, power, and chassis design expertise further enables our development and production, enabling next generation innovation from cloud to edge for our global customers. Our products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Asia, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).

Supermicro, Server Building Block Solutions, and We Keep IT Green are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc.

All other brands, names, and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

 

• Innovative technologies enable retailers to implement intelligent stores at scale to deliver smarter, more responsive shopping experiences
• Industry partners to display production-ready AI solutions for loss prevention, digital twins, AI agents, customer analytics, and more

SAN JOSE, Calif. and NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Retail's Big Show -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for AI/ML, HPC, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, today announced collaboration with technology partners for AI-powered intelligent in-store retail solutions designed to meet increasing customer expectations with scalability, improved productivity and increased profitability.

"AI is reshaping shopping experiences, enabling real-time analysis of video and other data to give retailers actionable insights to optimizing staff efficiency, reducing shrinkage, increasing profits, and avoiding stock-outs," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. "By combining Supermicro's complete and scalable AI platforms with NVIDIA RTX PRO accelerated computing solutions, we're enabling retailers to build intelligent stores that maximize the benefits of AI-driven applications."

According to the latest NVIDIA State of AI in Retail & CPG report, 89% of respondents reported that AI is helping to increase annual revenue, while 95% said it is helping decrease annual costs, highlighting the measurable business impact retailers are already achieving because of AI¹.

For more information, please visit https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/edge/servers

Supermicro Complete and Scalable Edge AI Infrastructure

Retail-centric AI applications require sub-second responsiveness which is only possible, at scale, if data is processed directly at the edge. Supermicro's Edge AI infrastructure enables the deployment of solutions in distributed environments, such as intelligent retail stores and supply chains, to provide a complete solution.

Deploying at the edge presents a myriad of unique challenges in comparison to the data center. Supermicro's broad Edge AI portfolio of products helps customers and partners overcome these challenges while striking the right balance between performance and ROI.

For deployments in harsh environments where conditioned space is not available, the fanless E103 series of products bring AI processing power where it couldn't go before. Supermicro also offers a fanned small form factor E300 series systems with AI capabilities.

When there is a demanding AI workload at the edge, customers and partners can turn to numerous systems capable of holding the latest discrete GPUs for AI acceleration. Ranging from 1U short-depth to larger 4U form factors, solutions can be right-sized to meet the customer's needs by enabling the latest generation of NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell series.

Supermicro Intelligent Store Partners

Supermicro is collaborating with ecosystem partners including Everseen, Kinetic Vision, ALLSIDES, LiveX, WobotAI, and Aible, to create intelligent stores that positively impact day-to-day retail operations as well as longer term supply chain management.

• Everseen's Evercheck solution uses Vision AI to help reduce shrink and improve staff productivity and customer experiences. Built on the Everseen Vision AI platform, Evercheck detects, and deters recovery of unwanted behaviors at checkout, helping retailers recover losses and streamline front-of-store operations.

"Everseen has spent years working alongside some of the world's largest retailers, understanding the realities of the store floor and solving loss challenges where they actually happen," said Joe White, CEO of Everseen. "By partnering with Supermicro and leveraging NVIDIA-accelerated computing, Evercheck delivers real-time computer vision at the edge - transforming store activity into intelligence retailers can act on immediately."

• Wobot AI, focused on building Video AI Agents for the physical world, will be demonstrating how the cameras retailers already own can be turned into systems that continuously observe, learn, and produce usable insight. By converting ordinary CCTV infrastructure into autonomous agents that recognize patterns, identify friction, and surface decisions, Wobot's AI Agents enable retailers to improve day-to-day operations with practical and measurable outcomes.

"By working with Supermicro and NVIDIA at the edge, we're able to deploy Video AI Agents in a way that's scalable, reliable, and focused on real-time operational insight—not experimentation," said Will Kelso, President, Revenue & Growth at Wobot AI.

• LiveX AI - "Retail is entering an era where AI agents become the default interaction layer between brands and customers," said Jerry Li, Co-Founder and CEO of LiveX AI. "With NVIDIA's accelerated AI and Supermicro's edge infrastructure, we can deploy a helpful, human-like AI agent directly in physical spaces—such as kiosks or holograms—bringing the speed, intelligence, and continuity of digital experiences into brick-and-mortar environments. This collaboration makes AI agents usable, in real time, where customers actually are."

• • Kinetic Vision and ALLSIDES are bundling their expertise for a True Digital Twin solution designed to develop, test, and optimize supply chain processes, checkout stations, and other complex systems.

"The combination of Supermicro's high reliability optimized infrastructure and NVIDIA's accelerated computing stack gives Kinetic Vision the foundation to innovate at speed. Together, we are helping retailers move from experimentation to production-ready AI solutions that drive measurable operational and customer experience gains," says Jeremy Jarratt, Kinetic Vision CEO.

Franz Tschimben, CEO at ALLSIDES, adds: "Building on the combined strengths of NVIDIA and Supermicro, we deliver a high-fidelity 3D digital twin data layer for AI training that enables retailers to power applications across the entire retail value chain — from training robots with physical AI, to production and production planning, virtual store layouts and consumer feedback systems, and e-commerce integrations — helping drive higher conversion rates, faster decision-making, and greater operational efficiency."

• Supermicro will also feature Superb AI's retail-focused VSS solution, combining Superb AI's proprietary VLM with NVIDIA AI Blueprint components to enable subjective reasoning capabilities, natural-language search, automated incident summarization, and customer behavior insights across store camera networks.
• Aible will highlight its automated agent solution, which analyzes vast amounts of data across millions of patterns to explain changes in retail KPIs, such as the average purchase amount or number of purchases. Aible will also demonstrate how the latest NVIDIA Retail blueprints can be incorporated into agentic solutions that automatically customize customer experiences and optimize retail operations at scale.

Arijit Sengupta, CEO of Aible, adds, "Today's market and labor conditions are constantly changing. Only autonomous agents can understand and adjust to these ever-changing patterns of customer behavior, inventory costs and supply, and labor access at scale. Working with NVIDIA and Supermicro, Aible brings autonomous agents subject to business user review to the retail edge."

These intelligent retail solutions will be demonstrated by Supermicro and its partners at NRF: Retail's Big Show in New York City from January 11-13. To learn more about AI-powered retail applications or Supermicro's AI Infrastructure solutions, visit Supermicro booth #5281 and attend its speaking session featuring PepsiCo and Kinetic Vision. For more details, please visit www.supermicro.com/NRF

¹Source: "NVIDIA State of AI in Retail and CPG" 2026

About Super Micro Computer, Inc.

Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first to market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, switch systems, software, and support services. Supermicro's motherboard, power, and chassis design expertise further enables our development and production, enabling next generation innovation from cloud to edge for our global customers. Our products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Asia, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).

Supermicro, Server Building Block Solutions, and We Keep IT Green are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc.

All other brands, names, and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

 

** The press release content is from PR Newswire. Bastille Post is not involved in its creation. **

Supermicro Announces Intelligent In-Store Retail Solutions in Collaboration with a Broad Range of Industry Partners