US companies that have won Hyundai Electronics to their cause the Texas Instruments Inc team working on the Lightning version of the Sparc, Unisys Corp, which has licensed the company to assemble its Unix machines in Korea, those interested in the company’s X-terminals, amy have backed the wrong horse: the Korean government has ordered the country’s giant conglomerates to nominate three core activities that in future will be their only ones that receive government support, and while Samsung, Daewoo and Lucky-Goldstar all nominated electronics in their three, Hyundai has gone for petrochemicals, cars and precision machinery; under the new rules, the chosen activities will get unlimited access to credit, where the remaining activities will face strict limits, the intention being that they should be sold, a policy that has not gone down well with the firms.
