Samsung Case Study

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1938-1969: The Beginning In 1938, Lee Byung Chull, who is the founder of Samsung, founded Samsung Sanghoe (삼성상회), which was a small trading company selling dried-fish, locally-grown groceries and noodles (“About Samsung”, n.d.). In 1947, the company’s head office was relocated to Seoul, but due to the Korean War, it shortly left the country. As a result, Lee Byung Chull started a new sugar refinery in Busan called Cheil Jedang. After he saved up some certain amount of money, Mr. Lee founded another business named Cheil Mojik in Daegu, which was the largest woollen mill ever in the country. With Lee’s effort, Samsung has been diversified and expanded into a wide rage of business, such as insurance, securities, retail and so on. In addition to Mr. Lee, President Park Chung Hee also played an important role in the development of Samsung. He focused on his economic development strategy on a handful of large domestic conglomerates, protecting them from competition and assisting them financially (Moon, 2008). In 1948, Cho Hong Jai started a new step by jointly investing in a new company called Samsung Mulsan Gongsa (삼성물산), or the Samsung Trading Corporation. Cho Hong Jai is the Hyosung Group founder, which is a local industrial conglomerate specializing in chemical textiles and heavy machinery. This trading company grew to become the Samsung C&T Corporation (Lee, 2009), but as a result of differences in management styles, the trading company separated a few years laters. Cho Hong

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