Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Hangul: 한국전자통신연구원; hanja: 韓國電子通信硏究院) is a Korean government-funded research institution in Daedeok Science Town in Daejeon, Republic of Korea. As of December 14th, 2015, ETRI has about 2,000 employees where about 1,800 of them are researchers.

Overview

Established in 1976, ETRI is a non-profit government-funded research institute that has been at the forefront of technological excellence for about 40 years. In the 1980s, ETRI developed TDX(Time Division Exchange) and 4M DRAM(Dynamic Random Access Memory). In the 1990s, ETRI commercialized CDMA(Code Division Multiple Access) for the first time in the world. In the 2000s, ETRI developed Terrestrial DMB, WiBro, and 4G LTE Advanced, which became the foundation of mobile communications. Recently, as a global ICT leader, ETRI has been advancing communication and convergence by developing SAN(Ship Area Network) technology, Genie Talk(world class portable automatic interpretation; Korean-English/Japanese/Chinese), and automated valet parking technology.