When the virus spread to South Korea, travel restrictions prevented its workers from continuing to increase production at a factory in the port city of Haiphong.

Editor’s note: This article comes from Tencent Technology , and review Cheng Xi.

South Korea's Apple supply chain suffered an epidemic The epidemic of the new crown virus has spread globally, and its impact on the technology industry has continued to expand. South Korea has also become one of the hardest hit areas. According to the latest news from foreign media, South Korea has a large number of technology and electronics companies, including the supply chain of Apple in the United States. During this outbreak, South Korean companies have been affected one after another. An executive said that he can only sigh now. , Feeling very weak.

According to foreign media reports, for a South Korean multinational company that produces smartphone components used by Apple and LG Electronics, the epidemic of the new crown virus has hit one after another.

First, the initial outbreak forced its factory in China to close for almost three weeks, and caused the supply of Chinese factories to the company’s Vietnam factory to start to dry up. Then, when the virus spread to South Korea, travel restrictions prevented its workers from continuing to increase production at a factory in the port city of Haiphong.

The company, which declined to be named (because of the need to protect commercial partnerships), is facing disruption of its plant in Gumi, the center of South Korea ’s electronics industry, which is located less than Daegu, the center of South Korea ’s new crown virus outbreak. An hour’s drive.

Affected by the cross-infection incident in the local church community, thousands of people have been infected with the new crown virus in Daegu, which accounts for two-thirds of all infections in South Korea. Daegu has entered a state of emergency and the epidemic has spread to The nearby Gumi City has affected many technology and electronics companies.

In addition to continuing difficulties in purchasing from Chinese companies, suppliers that supply smartphone screen parts and camera modules to LG have also been hit by forced isolation of some workers, who fear that more problems may spread , Such as affecting the relationship with customers such as Apple.

“This virus has a domino effect on suppliers,” an executive at the company told foreign media. “I just look up at the sky and sigh.”

The plight of this company illustrates how the new crown virus crisis has shaken Asian electronics supply chains (Asian electronics supply chains have