Microsoft shut down the Korean R & D center to focus on operations in China

this mobilization and will not be cited attrition. Korean R & D center currently has 21 employees, 10 transferred to the R & D center in Washington, and the rest would be placed in the Microsoft office in South Korea, that is to say, does not have any staff transferred to the R & D headquarters in Beijing. Microsoft also said that the R & D center in South Korea does not affect its business in Korea.

In fact, Microsoft is not the first R & D team to evacuate the South Korean company. Yahoo in Asian strategic restructuring last year, also evacuated the South Korea, while HTC and Motorola to make the same choice due to local competitive.