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In early 2010s, I had purchased a small Class-D "Digital Integrated Amplifier": It had 3.5mm, USB, S/PDIF (Optical+Coax) inputs and 20W/Ch output.With Korea's electronics related NTBs being notorious for costs and inconvenience.
Firestone Audio BigJoe-III was a S. Korean product, and story I had heard at the time of purchase was that there was some sort of audio rivalry with Japan and the BigJoe line of audio products were supposed to proudly display S. Korea's miniaturization capabilities.
It served me very well for many years as a part of my desktop PC audio system... until this rivalry became moot and both got shellac'd by [what you call] Chi-fi.

Had you ever heard of this S. Korean company before they disappeared?