Cho Mu-hyun is based in Seoul, South Korea and covers global tech conglomerates Samsung, LG and technology news in Asia. His English name is Joe and it rhymes with his last name.
Employees within its semiconductor business are now required to answer weekly, online self-examination questions regarding the outbreak.
Samsung and LG are seeing more coronavirus cases as the number of infected in South Korea continues to rise.
It is the latest South Korean firm to have its operations directly impacted by the coronavirus outbreak.
More and more South Korean tech firms are reacting to the spike in coronavirus cases in the country, with 1,146 confirmed cases and 11 dead, as of Wednesday.
The South Korean tech giant continues to pack more memory into smartphones.
Samsung resumed operations of one of its factories which had been temporarily shut down over the weekend due to the coronavirus.
It is the first time a non-executive director has been chosen to head Samsung Electronics' board.
The new V1 line will triple Samsung's EUV capacity for chips that are 7nm or smaller by the end of the year.
The Korean memory maker has shut down some of its facilities and has asked its workers to be quarantined at homes due to an employee making contact with a confirmed novel coronavirus patient.
Those with drones that have a maximum takeoff weight of over 2 kilograms will be required to register them as they do for automobiles.