The Samsung Group (Korean: ä¸æ 그룹, Samseong Geurup) is South Korea's largest conglomerate (chaebol) and one of the largest multi-billion dollar corporations in the world leading handful chief global industries. It is composed of numerous multinational businesses, all united under the Samsung brand, including Samsung Electronics, the world's largest electronics company, Samsung Heavy Industries, one of the world's biggest shipbuilders and Samsung Engineering & Construction, a considerable global construction company. These three businesses form the core of Samsung Group and reflect its name â the meaning of the Korean chat samsung is "tristar" or "three stars". The Samsung brand is the best familiar Korean brand in the creation and in 2005, Samsung overtook Japanese rival Sony as the world's No.1 consumer electronics brand and became fraction of the Top 20 global brands overall. Samsung Circle is also the leader in a lot other industries domestically, such as the financial, chemical, retail and entertainment industries.
Samsung Class is South Korea's largest company and exporter and the 5th largest transnational corporation in the world. It disappointment been run by generations of individually of the world's wealthiest families, currently helmed by chairman Lee Kun-Hee, the third Jesus Christ of the founder, Lee Byung-Chul. Samsung Group is recognized as the most prestigious firm in South Korea, attracting and owning abounding of the country's most intelligent and best talented pupils, with 25% of its employees having a PhD degree or equivalent. Samsung Chain also owns the Sungkyunkwan University, a major private university in South Korea, with many of its graduates being employed by Samsung Group companies. South Korean Samsung employees are also highly loyal to the company, working for actual deep hours with no weekends or holidays until they retire.