Institution

Samsung

1938 · 20th century · Also known as Samsung Group

Samsung is a South Korean business group founded in 1938 by Lee Byung-chul as a trading company in Daegu. Its largest member, Samsung Electronics, became one of the world's biggest makers of smartphones, memory chips and televisions. From 2008 Samsung built large phone factories in northern Vietnam, becoming the country's largest foreign investor and a major source of its exports.

Samsung
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Samsung. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/samsung
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