Remote Solution Co., Ltd. is an electronics

Electronics

Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...

 manufacturer located in Gimcheon

Gimcheon

Gimcheon is a city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It is situated on the major land transportation routes between Seoul and Busan, namely the Gyeongbu Expressway and Gyeongbu Line railway.-Administrative divisions:...

, South Korea

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

. The company was founded in 1994 as Hango Electronics Co., Ltd. and assumed its current name in 2002.

Although the company's primary products are handheld remote control

Remote control

A remote control is a component of an electronics device, most commonly a television set, used for operating the television device wirelessly from a short line-of-sight distance.The remote control is usually contracted to remote...

 devices, it is best known for its "Personal Jukebox

Personal Jukebox

The Personal Jukebox was the first commercially sold hard disk digital audio player. Introduced late in 1999, it preceded the Apple iPod and similar players. The original design was developed by Compaq Research starting in May 1998...

" digital audio player. Produced from 2000 until about 2003, the player was developed by and licensed to HanGo Electronics by Compaq

Compaq

Compaq Computer Corporation is a personal computer company founded in 1982. Once the largest supplier of personal computing systems in the world, Compaq existed as an independent corporation until 2002, when it was acquired for US$25 billion by Hewlett-Packard....

. The PJB-100 was the first hard drive-based DAP

DAP

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 and was first sold by Remote Solution in 1999.

HanGo's former Brea, California

Brea, California

Brea is a city in Orange County, California. The population, as of the 2010 Census was 39,282.The city began as a center of crude oil production, was later propelled by citrus production, and is now an important retail center because of the large Brea Mall and the recently redeveloped Brea Downtown...

-based marketing and sales department went under the name of HanGo Remote Solution, Inc. David Ahn, a Korean living in the United States, owned a 30% stake in this company. Ahn had been HanGo's sales representative in the United States since 1997 and had, for that purpose, formerly founded and headed HanGo Electronics, Inc. (which changed its name to Remote Solution in 2000). This company failed in December 2002, although the Korean parent is still in operation .