Samsung Display, a provider for Samsung Electronics and Apple, has requested Vietnam to exempt 700 engineers from coronavirus-hit South Korea from a compulsory quarantine, saying they should put together for the manufacturing of screens for brand new smartphones.
Vietnam has mandated a 14-day quarantine for individuals coming from South Korea to curb the unfold of the virus, which will be transmitted from individual to individual and has already reached greater than 60 nations. South Korea has reported one of many highest variety of infections exterior China.
This has come as a blow to South Korean corporations, that are the most important international traders in Vietnam. Samsung Display runs a manufacturing facility within the Southeast Asian nation the place it assembles OLED shows utilized in smartphones made by Samsung Electronics, Apple and Huawei.
“Around this time of the year, Samsung Display sends engineers from Korea to Vietnam to prepare for new products scheduled to be launched in the latter half of the year,” an individual accustomed to the matter informed Reuters.
“Travel restrictions could deal a setback to such plan.”
Samsung Display, a Samsung Electronics unit, is in talks with the Vietnamese authorities about exemption for its engineers travelling from South Korea from quarantine in the event that they current medical examination reviews, the particular person added on situation of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.
The Southeast Asian nation is South Korea’s No. three export market in addition to the fifth-biggest supply of Korean imports. Samsung Electronics alone accounts for a fourth of Vietnam’s exports and makes over half of its world smartphones there.
© Thomson Reuters 2020
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