Signal Entertainment Group

Signal Entertainment Group Corp., founded in 1991, is a South Korean company specializing in the following businesses: show business, media and entertainment content, cosmetics and information technology.

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History

Founded in 1991 as Signal Information & Communication Corp., the company was the national licensee of the now-defunct American company Motorola. In 1997, it partnered with the now-defunct Korea Telecom Freetel for PCS service.
1999 was the year when Signal I&C became the official distributor of Motorola Multimedia Group Cable Services. It also partnered with KT for PCS service. Signal I&C got the ISO 9001 certification in this same year.
In 2001, Signal I&C signed a business partnership with Lucent, then partnered with SK Telecom for IMT Advanced service.
Then in 2003, the company signed another business partnership, this time with CommWorks Corporation. Later on, it partnered again with KT for ATM service.
Signal I&C joined the Korea Exchange 's KOSDAQ index in 2011.
2015 became the start of a new era for the company as it launched its present corporate name - then started to diversify into the show business, media and cosmetics industries.

Mergers and acquisitions

2014

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2015

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2016

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