Lg Display Co., Ltd.

Kyu-Bong Jung

Ja-Young Pyun

Hyun-Ho Shin

A backlight unit for a liquid crystal display device includes a reflection plate, a light guide plate over the reflection plate, the light guide plate having n grooves at a lower surface and including (n+1) areas divided by the grooves, wherein n is a natural number, a first LED assembly disposed at a first side surface of the light guide plate, the first LED assembly including (n+1) LED packages, each of which has at least one LED, wherein the LED packages of the first LED assembly correspond to the areas, respectively, and are separately driven, and a plurality of optical sheets over the light guide plate.

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Gangwon-do, South Korea

Kyu-Bong Jung