History
1938 to 1970
The headquarters of Sanghoes in Daegu in the late 1930s

In 1938, Lee Byung-chull (1910–1987) of a large landowning family in the Uiryeong county moved to nearby Daegu city and founded Samsung Sanghoe (삼성상회, 三星商會). Samsung started out as a small trading company with forty employees located in Su-dong (now Ingyo-dong).[15] It dealt in dried-fish,[16] locally-grown groceries and made noodles. The company prospered and Lee moved its head office to Seoul in 1947. When the Korean War broke out, he was forced to leave Seoul. He started a sugar refinery in Busan named Cheil Jedang. In 1954, Lee founded Cheil Mojik and built the plant in Chimsan-dong, Daegu. It was the largest woollen mill ever in the country......
Samsung (Hangul: 삼성; Hanja: 三星; Korean pronunciation: [sʰamsʰʌŋ]) is a South Korean multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul.[1] It comprises numerous subsidiaries and affiliated businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand, and is the largest South Korean chaebol (business conglomerate).

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 globalized its activities and electronics; in particular, its mobile phones and semiconductors have become its most important source of income.

Notable Samsung industrial subsidiaries include Samsung Electronics (the world's largest information technology company measured by 2012 revenues, and 4th in market value), Samsung Heavy Industries (the world's 2nd-largest shipbuilder measured by 2010 revenues), and Samsung Engineering and Samsung C&T (respectively the world's 13th and 36th-largest construction companies).Other notable subsidiaries include Samsung Life Insurance (the world's 14th-largest life insurance company), Samsung Everland (operator of Everland Resort, the oldest theme park in South Korea) and Cheil Worldwide (the world's 15th-largest advertising agency measured by 2012 revenues).

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung

Most of you know Samsung as an electronics manufacturer company. But did you know Samsung Company is more than that?

What if I told you that the world’s tallest skyscraper, Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is built by Samsung? You probably didn’t know that.

We hear a lot of Apple, Google, and Microsoft, but what about the company that started 38 years before Apple?

source: http://www.prophethacker.com/2016/06/samsung-facts-company.html

Samsung's Heavy Industries builds ships in a 4 million square foot shipyard
Samsung Electronics has 370,000 employees worldwide. (Apple has 80,000. Microsoft has 97,106. GE has 305,000.)
Samsung says it paid those employees 14.5 billion won, or $12 billion.
Samsung accounts for 17 percent of Korea's Gross Domestic Product

source: http://www.businessinsider.com/mind-blowing-facts-about-samsung-2013-4?pundits_only=0&get_all_comments=1&no_reply_filter=1#now-for-what-samsungs-rival-is-up-to--14

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wi5dom:
History
1938 to 1970
The headquarters of Sanghoes in Daegu in the late 1930s

In 1938, Lee Byung-chull (1910–1987) of a large landowning family in the Uiryeong county moved to nearby Daegu city and founded Samsung Sanghoe (삼성상회, 三星商會). Samsung started out as a small trading company with forty employees located in Su-dong (now Ingyo-dong).[15] It dealt in dried-fish,[16] locally-grown groceries and made noodles. The company prospered and Lee moved its head office to Seoul in 1947. When the Korean War broke out, he was forced to leave Seoul. He started a sugar refinery in Busan named Cheil Jedang. In 1954, Lee founded Cheil Mojik and built the plant in Chimsan-dong, Daegu. It was the largest woollen mill ever in the country......
Samsung (Hangul: 삼성; Hanja: 三星; Korean pronunciation: [sʰamsʰʌŋ]) is a South Korean multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul.[1] It comprises numerous subsidiaries and affiliated businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand, and is the largest South Korean chaebol (business conglomerate).

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 globalized its activities and electronics; in particular, its mobile phones and semiconductors have become its most important source of income.

Notable Samsung industrial subsidiaries include Samsung Electronics (the world's largest information technology company measured by 2012 revenues, and 4th in market value), Samsung Heavy Industries (the world's 2nd-largest shipbuilder measured by 2010 revenues), and Samsung Engineering and Samsung C&T (respectively the world's 13th and 36th-largest construction companies).Other notable subsidiaries include Samsung Life Insurance (the world's 14th-largest life insurance company), Samsung Everland (operator of Everland Resort, the oldest theme park in South Korea) and Cheil Worldwide (the world's 15th-largest advertising agency measured by 2012 revenues).

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung

Most of you know Samsung as an electronics manufacturer company. But did you know Samsung Company is more than that?

What if I told you that the world’s tallest skyscraper, Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is built by Samsung? You probably didn’t know that.

We hear a lot of Apple, Google, and Microsoft, but what about the company that started 38 years before Apple?

source: http://www.prophethacker.com/2016/06/samsung-facts-company.html

Samsung's Heavy Industries builds ships in a 4 million square foot shipyard
Samsung Electronics has 370,000 employees worldwide. (Apple has 80,000. Microsoft has 97,106. GE has 305,000.)
Samsung says it paid those employees 14.5 billion won, or $12 billion.
Samsung accounts for 17 percent of Korea's Gross Domestic Product

source: http://www.businessinsider.com/mind-blowing-facts-about-samsung-2013-4?pundits_only=0&get_all_comments=1&no_reply_filter=1#now-for-what-samsungs-rival-is-up-to--14

OP u forgot to add that the name Samsung originated from Samuel song

powerfulsettingz:


OP u forgot to add that the name Samsung originated from Samuel song

Yeah...sorry, when you have too much, one tends to let go off the "little" things