August 9, 2010 03:14 PM | by 
Both Samsung and LG, famous handset manufacturers, have turned to an interesting source to perfect their phones. Both companies have hired design professors to help improve their devices’ user interfaces. Samsung has hired a certain Jung Ji-Hong as vice president of its Mobile Design Group. Mr. Ji-Hong’s resume includes being a visual design professor at Kookmin University, located in Seoul, Korea. Not to be outdone, LG has also hired Lee Kun-Pyo to be their executive vice president of Design Management Center. Similarly, Mr. Kun-Pyo was formerly the dean at the Department of Industrial Design at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science of Technology.
Go Korean pride! This is pretty big news for Asians everywhere, and it might just say something about the state of Korean technology compared to America’s…just saying.