4 Samsung Life Insurance Samsung Heavy Industries (Korean Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Korean: Samsung C&T Corporation (Construction & Trading Corporation) Samsung Life Insurance Samsung was founded by Lee Byung-chul in 1938 as a trading company. Over the next three decades, the group diversified into areas including food processing, textiles, insurance, securities, and retail. Samsung entered the electronics industry in the late 1960s and the construction and shipbuilding industries in the mid-1970s; these areas would drive its subsequent growth. Following Lee's death in 1987, Samsung was separated into four business groups – Samsung Group, Shinsegae Group, CJ Group and Hansol Group. Since 1990, Samsung has increasingly globalised its activities and electronics; in particular, its mobile phones and semiconductors have become its most important source of income. As of 2017, Samsung has the 6th highest global brand value.[4]
Notable Samsung industrial affiliates include Samsung Electronics (the world's largest information technology company, consumer electronics maker and chipmaker measured by 2017 revenues),[5][6] Samsung Heavy Industries (the world's 2nd largest shipbuilder measured by 2010 revenues),[7] and Samsung Engineering and Samsung C&T (respectively the world's 13th and 36th largest construction companies).[8] Other notable subsidiaries include Samsung Life Insurance (the world's 14th largest life insurance company),[9] Samsung Everland (operator of Everland Resort, the oldest theme park in South Korea)[10] and Cheil Worldwide (the world's 15th largest advertising agency measured by 2012 revenues).[11][12]
Samsung has a powerful influence on South Korea's economic development, politics, media and culture and has been a major driving force behind the "Miracle on the Han River".[13][14] Its affiliate companies ADITI GUPTA
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produce around a fifth of South Korea's total exports.[15] Samsung's revenue was equal to 17% of South Korea's $1,082 billion GDP.
Samsung Heavy Industries (Korean: ?????) is one of the largest shipbuilders in the world and one of the "Big Three" shipbuilders of South Korea (including Hyundai and Daewoo). Goeje (in Gyeongsangnam-do) is one of the largest shipyards in the world, having 3 dry docks, and 5 floating docks. A core subsidiary of the Samsung Group, South Korea's largest conglomerate, SHI's main focus is on the engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and the delivery of: transportation ships for the commercial industry, topsides modules, drilling and floating production units for the oil and gas sector, gantry cranes for fabrication yards, digital instrumentaton and control devices for ships, and other construction and engineering services.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Korean: Samsung Jeonja, Hangul: ????; Hanja: ???? [literally "tristar electronics"]) is a South Korean multinational electronics company headquartered in Suwon, South Korea.[1] Due to some circular ownership,[4] it is the flagship company of the Samsung chaebol, accounting for 70% of the group's revenue in 2012.[5] Samsung Electronics has assembly plants and sales networks in 80 countries and employs around 308,745 people.[3] It is the world's largest manufacturer of consumer electronics and semiconductors by revenue.[6] As of June 2018, Samsung Electronics' market cap stood at US$325.9 billion
Samsung C&T Corporation (Construction & Trading Corporation) (formerly Samsung Corporation) (Korean: ????), was founded in 1938 as a parent company of Samsung Group to engage in overseas sales operations. Since 1995, it has been largely focused on global engineering and construction projects, trade and investment, fashion and resorts. The corporation is governed by an 11-member Board of Directors, made up of the President and CEOs of its four working groups (Engineering & Construction, Trading & Investment, Fashion, and Resort), the corporation's CFO, and six independent members.[2] Samsung C&T employs just under 13,000 people.
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