Led lighting apparatus with improved total harmonic distortion in source current

An LED lighting apparatus comprising:

• a rectification block configured to rectify an AC voltage to a DC rectified voltage;
• an LED block including a first light emitting group and a second light emitting group each including one or more LEDs;
• a charging/discharging block configured to charge electric charges in a charging period, and discharge electric charges in a discharging period such that the LED block emits light;
• a driving control unit configured to determine a voltage level of the rectified voltage output from the rectification block, controls a path selection switch to connect the rectification block to the LED block and controls the charging/discharging block to charge the charging/discharging block with electric charges, when the voltage level of the rectified voltage enters the charging period, and controls the path selection switch to connect the rectification block to a ground and controls the charging/discharging block to discharge electric charges from the charging/discharging block to the LED block, when the voltage level of the rectified voltage enters the discharging period;
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• a path selection switch configured to connect the rectification block to the LED block in the charging period, and connect the rectification block to the ground in the discharging period.