About Samsung. History of the Samsung brand

The ability to balance on a knife edge, instantly respond to changes and always be on the alert - these are the distinguishing qualities Many Korean companies went to the bottom, unable to withstand all kinds of “cleansing” and persecution, and Samsung not only survived, but also became a transnational corporation.

According to the biography of the founder of Samsung Lee Byong Chul, you can shoot an action movie in the spirit of Jackie Chan. "Three stars" - this is how the name of the company founded by him in 1938 sounded in translation. At that time, this company did not even think about any high technologies, quietly supplying rice, sugar and dried fish to China and Manchuria. It looked like a protest against dependence on Japan, and Samsung gained a reputation as a patriotic entrepreneur. Then the company gave beer and vodka to American troops, having specially built the largest plant. But for this (1950), the North Korean communists put the name of Lee Byong Chul on the death list as an accomplice of the puppet regime.
If Lee hadn't smelled the fried food, reinvested all the profits, and turned all the proceeds into cash, then Samsung would have died. How the money stuffed into the wine box survived is a separate story. The car in which they were transported was confiscated, the house in which they were hidden was completely burned down, and the wooden box was only charred! And Samsung, as they say, has risen from the ashes.
The second time Lee was on the death list was under Park Chung Hee. Formally - for illegal enrichment on government supplies and economic sabotage, but in reality for having rubbed shoulders with the Japanese, trying to learn from the experience of the zaibatsu (chaebol in Korean, but in our opinion something like a powerful clan).
After a sincere conversation with General Li, not only was he not shot, but he was appointed head of Korean businessmen. Samsung has become a concern, mastering government orders and enjoying all sorts of subsidies and benefits. What the company did, which grew into a huge conglomerate (1970) - and machine tools, and ships, and chemical enterprises ...

In general, everything that happened before the 70s somehow weakly correlates with the image of a modern corporation, and Samsung-Sanyo Electronics, the first joint Korean-Japanese enterprise, can rightly be called its real predecessor. True, cooperation with those same zaibatsu was not the most successful - the Japanese clamped the latest technology and shared only obsolete ones, and the prices for components were driven up. This is one of the reasons Sanyo was removed from the company's name - it's just that Koreans have learned how to make semiconductors themselves. By the end of the 70s, Samsung Electronics had become the flagship enterprise of the Lee empire, and in the late 80s, an economic crisis occurred in Korea, and the company became unprofitable.
Samsung again had every chance to cease to exist, but this did not happen, since Lee the second (Kun Hee) developed a rescue plan long before the crisis. It was planned to change everything, with the exception of wives and children. The key point in the restructuring was a shift in priorities - quality became more important than quantity. Perestroika lasted 10 years and was crowned with success. One company after another went bankrupt: Hanbo, Daewoo, Huyndai, and Samsung increased exports and established itself in the global high-tech market.

1995 can be called a turning point in the history of Samsung - the beginning of the transformation of the company into a high-quality brand. The symbol of this moment is a photograph in which 2,000 employees smash defective Samsung products to smithereens - 150,000 fax machines, mobile phones and other devices. Samsung Group survived the last Asian crisis in 1997 with a new president, Jong-Yong Yun. Sacrificing his tail to save lives, Yoon liquidated dozens of second-hand businesses, fired a third of the staff, breaking the practice of hiring for life, and staked on emerging digital technologies.
As you can see, while other companies were doing research and one after another released the world's first novelties - a CD, a transistor receiver, a video camera, etc., Samsung survived, struggled and developed. So it cannot be said about this company that in some distant year it came up with something innovative, and everyone fell in love with it. Hit Samsung products fall precisely on the current millennium.
It's even hard to imagine that this company once produced B/W TVs and other products at "reasonable" prices. Today, Samsung has become one of the most innovative and successful players in the consumer electronics and semiconductor market. It is the world's leading manufacturer of memory chips, LCD flat panel displays and color televisions.

The company was a pioneer in the development of SDRAM, an ultra-fast memory chip used in personal computers and a special memory chip used in game consoles. Sony PlayStation 2. The camera phone is the size of a credit card! Third generation phone that receives satellite TV programs! World's smallest multifunction printer! And what is most surprising, in the summer of 2005, the value of the Samsung brand surpassed Sony for the first time! This was calculated by one of the British research companies.
In the TV market, Samsung definitely surpassed not only Sony, but also Philips, and did it back in 2003. At CeBIT last year, Samsung wiped everyone's nose, presenting the world's largest 102-inch plasma panel (more than two meters!), In line for which even the head of Oracle, Larry Ellison, signed up. LCD TVs of new models have been reviewed by magazines and experts, having noted this in various nominations such as “ Best Buy and 5 points. And the LN-57F51 BD LCD TV was even called the representative of a new era of TVs. Still, with it, even the room does not need to be darkened, since the quality of the picture does not depend on the ambient light.

It doesn't take a week for Samsung to announce something big. Like the world's first mobile phone with a built-in 5-megapixel camera (now it has 7 megapixels) or the same first phone with a hard drive. In general, if we talk about the development trends of the company or even about its mission, it is both external and internal connected with digital convergence. This is when you look at the device, and you can not determine its class.
Take the SCH-S250 mobile phone, which has the functionality of a camcorder, MP3 player, 92 MB of memory and a display with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels - well, what kind of mobile phone is this? Samsung believes that it has no competitors in this convergence, since no other company has such a set of proprietary technologies as Samsung. A little boastful, but it seems to be true, since Samsung is a real manufacturing company, not a sticker label on other people's products. Suffice it to say that Samsung is the only company in the world that manufactures laptops and monitors in its own factories, without relying on OEMs.

But Samsung is not only a high-tech factory, as it may seem, but also a recognized R & D center. It is worth, for example, a simple-looking small TV. Do you know what's interesting about it? It looks like a modern LCD, but is actually a tube. This is an example of Samsung's innovative design thought. Another example: an antibacterial phone coated with a special paint that releases colloidal silver. Laptops will soon no longer have hard drives - they will be replaced by a new generation of flash memory, the release of which Samsung will deploy in 2007.

With purely Korean either cunning or foresight, Samsung approached the war of HD-DVD and Blu-ray formats - instead of supporting one of the parties, as Sony and Toshiba did, they took and developed a combo player that supports both formats. Samsung's maximum program is ambitious: to become one of the top three leaders in the electronics industry both in terms of volume and quality of products, and to double the number of leading areas. Movement in this direction is noticeable to the naked eye - more and more new Samsung products are in the consumer range above the average level and even in the premium segment.

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History of South Korean Samsung Electronics Co. begins in 1938, when Byong Chul Lee, a resident of the small town of Daegu, founded trading company called "Samsung" (translated as "Three Stars"). The name "Samsung" in Korean is pronounced as "Samson" (삼성 / 三星), and in Russian transcription it sounds like "Samsung".

There are two versions of the origin of the name of the legendary company. According to one version, the name "Three Stars" corresponds to the three sons of Byong Chul Lee. According to another version, the founder gave his company the name "Samsung", so that it becomes big, strong and eternal, like stars in the sky.

Byong Chul Lee, founder of Samsung Trading Co.

At first, Samsung, led by Byong Chul Lee, was engaged in the supply of dried fish, rice and noodles to China and Manchuria. Since 1939, a brewery has become part of the company, and the product range has been replenished with wine and rice vodka.

Daegu Store - Samsung's First Residence

Thanks to the managerial talent and intuition of Byong Chul Lee, Samsung was doing well, the company increased its sales volumes annually and staffing personnel. In 1948, it was decided to give the company a fashionable American name for those times: Samsung Trading Co.

Successfully survived the Second world war(1939-1945), Samsung added sewing machines, fertilizers, sugar and steel to its product range, and included Hong Kong and Macau in its sales geography.

During Korean War(1950-1953) Samsung Trading Co survived Hard times: its main factories and warehouses were destroyed, and the business was completely destroyed. But in the post-war years, the company literally rose from the ashes and found new strength to continue its journey. Not without the support of the government of South Korea, which, in restoring the faltering economy, relied on large concerns (chaebols). Samsung Trading Co, like some others large companies such as Daewoo, Hyundai, Coldstar, received benefits and loans from the state and was provided with state orders. Thanks to the powerful state support Samsung Trading Co has grown into one of the country's leading corporations.

In the 60-70s. In the 20th century, Samsung's business expanded: the company built a powerful fertilizer factory, developed the Korean insurance system, established a newspaper, and began building hospitals, universities, hotels, and ships.

The merits of Samsung include the construction of the tallest building in the world - the Burj Khalifa in the UAE, the twin towers in Malaysia and many other unique objects.

The merits of Samsung include the construction

tallest building in the world - the Burj Khalifa in the UAE

Towers in Malaysia built by Samsung

Large capacity cargo ship built by Samsung

In 1969, two significant events took place in the history of the Korean monster of the world economy at once: the first English-language Samsung logo was created and, together with Sanyo, a black-and-white TV assembly unit was opened. Three years later, in 1973, the joint venture came under the control of Samsung Trading Co, and was transformed into Samsung Electronics Corporation. In 1977, along with black-and-white TVs, the company began to produce color TVs; in 1979, the product range was replenished with VCRs; - mobile phones.

Byong Chul Lee in production, 1976

One of the directions that ensured the world fame of Samsung Electronics Co is the production of printing equipment, which has become popular somehow imperceptibly, but for a long time and seriously. The company initially relied on technologies developed in the Xerox laboratories, so many similarities could be found between the products of the two companies, ranging from technological solutions, and ending with full compatibility with cartridges and toner.

From year to year the lineup Samsung Electronics has been expanding, currently the company's printing equipment occupies a rather impressive segment of the world market, the company is one of the three leading manufacturers of laser printers and MFPs.

Printing equipment is produced in one of the divisions of Samsung Electronics - Digital Media Business. Here, along with printers and MFPs, plasma TVs, LCD TVs, monitors, laptops, digital cameras and video cameras, etc.

Digital Media Business

12 series of printing equipment rolled off the assembly line of Samsung Electronics: CF, CLP, CLX, MJ, MJC, ML, MSYS, Other, QL, SCX, SF, SPP. The largest of these series are ML and SCX.

The series includes almost 200 printing devices, the most popular of which are Samsung ML 1210, Samsung ML 2015, Samsung ML 2160, Samsung ML 1640, Samsung ML 2165.

Now a few words about the development of the company logo. The first three versions of the logo contain an image of three stars, which, in accordance with Eastern philosophy, have an eternal, unshakable beginning.

Samsung logos

In 1993, at the initiative of the company's management, a modern version of the Samsung Electronics logo was developed. The slightly inclined ellipse symbolizes the Universe, the blue color in the design of the ellipse is the color of the sky and the ocean. The word "Samsung" is inside an ellipse, with the characters "S" and "G" creating small holes on the border, thus marking the company's connection to the world.

Modern Samsung logo and its meaning

Currently, Samsung Electronics is ranked 21st in terms of brand value in the world, and the company logo is one of the most recognizable.

Samsung logo at the entrance to the company's office

Stele at the company's central office

Byong Chul Lee died in 1987 of lung cancer. In honor of the blessed memory of its founder, a commemorative bust made of bronze and marble was installed in one of the Samsung offices.

Commemorative bust of the founder of the company

From the date of Byong Chul Lee's death to the present (with a break in 2008-2010), the board of directors of Samsung is headed by the founder's youngest son, Lee Gon Hee. His appointment to the post of head of the board of directors went against all Eastern traditions, according to which the eldest son inherits most of the family property.

Founder's son - Lee Gun Hee

At the end of 2012, Lee Gun Hee appointed his son Jay Lee to the post of deputy board of directors, effectively recognizing him as the heir to the Samsung empire.

The history of the Samsung Industrial Group began in 1938 in Korea, when a rice trading company was founded, which successfully developed, covering all new areas of activity, and after 10 years became known as Samsung Trading Co, which means "three stars" in Korean.

In 1969, the company made a breakthrough into the advanced electronics industry almost from scratch. Together with Sanyo, Samsung Electronics Company “SEC” was created, specializing in the production of semiconductors, and soon a workshop for assembling black and white Japanese TVs was opened. By 1973, a large-scale production of a variety of household appliances, and the joint venture became Samsung Electronics Corporation. Adopting Sanyo technologies, and being engaged in the production of semiconductors, the corporation eventually turned into one of largest manufacturers electronics.

In 1973, the corporate headquarters moved to Suwon (South Korea), and in December the construction of the plant was completed. consumer electronics. Later, the Korean company Semiconductor Co. joined Samsung Electronics, marking the beginning of the mass production of refrigerators and washing machines.
In 1979, the production of the first household video recorders began, in 1983 - personal computers, and in next year A VCR plant in the United States and a microwave oven plant began operations.

By 1998, the corporation became the owner of a major share of the LCD monitor market and began mass production of digital TVs and DVD players, where special technologies allow viewing NTSC discs on PAL and SECAM TVs.

Samsung Electronics is a recognized leader in digital convergence technologies, semiconductor and telecommunications equipment. The most profitable for the concern was the production of semiconductors. Samsung launched the production of microprocessors for digital image and sound processing in televisions, camcorders and video recorders.

Today it is impossible to find an industry in which Samsung divisions do not operate. Literally everything is produced under this brand: from digital cameras and stereos to microwaves and toasters, from cars to airplanes and ocean-going ships. Domestically, the Samsung Group generates more than 50% of the country's total budget. Almost 500,000 employees work in the corporation's branches around the world, and the city of Suwon, where the headquarters of Samsung Electronics is located, is called "Samsung City". By 2020, the company is going to enter the top five global brands.

In Russia, Samsung has become a national brand. In September 2008, a plant for the production of household appliances was opened on the territory of the Vorsino industrial park in the Kaluga region. To date, the plant produces all televisions and monitors sold in Russia. The product range includes liquid crystal, LED and plasma TVs, LCD monitors, Blu-ray players and home theaters. In the spring of 2010 on Samsung factory 3D LED TV production started. Equipment manufactured at the Samsung factory
in the Kaluga region, it is also supplied to Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Service work on the repair of Samsung equipment is carried out by a network of ASCs throughout the country. Non-warranty repair of Samsung TVs, urgent repair of Samsung DVD, inexpensive repair of Samsung monitors, high-quality repair of Samsung home theaters and other electronic and household appliances of this manufacturer are offered by our service center.

Most users are interested in which country Samsung is made in. The main highlight of the method, which will be described in detail below, is that any user will be able to check the country of origin of any Android smartphone, not just Samsung's Android smartphone.

Samsung started its first production in India by opening its first factory in Noida, Uttar Pradesh near New Delhi in 1997. This state-of-the-art complex is today the home base of the electronics giant. It produces mobile phones, refrigerators and LED TVs. The Noida site is considered the leader among all Samsung subsidiaries in terms of maximizing performance.

To help produce its products better and faster in the southern part of the country, Samsung opened a second manufacturing facility in Chennai, Tamil Nadu in November 2007. Today, the Sriperumbudur facility manufactures LED TVs, washing machines, refrigerators and split air conditioners.

IMEI display on screen

To determine the manufacturer, we first need to figure out how to display the IMEI number of your smartphone. This is a unique identifier for any gadget that cannot be spoofed or faked.

To display these numbers on the screen, dial *#06#. Next, you will see one or two IMEI numbers, depending on how many SIM card slots are installed in your smartphone. In addition, the unique serial number of the Samsung smartphone will also be displayed.

You can also view the IMEI number and serial number if your phone model is equipped with a removable battery. To do this, the device must be turned off, the battery removed, and there will be a sticker with these Samsung data in its compartment.

Which country is the manufacturer of this or that smartphone? This question worries a large number of users. And no wonder. After all, many may not know at all that the Samsung manufacturing country may differ. So, it was previously believed that all smartphones of this brand are assembled in China, but this is not true.

What do IMEI symbols mean

After you have displayed the IMEI information on the screen, you need to figure out what it means. On the smartphone screen, the information will look something like this: Samsung ww70k62108wd ua. The country of origin is not displayed in open form.

By the way, Samsung management claims that the quality of their products is consistently high, regardless of which country produces it.

Returning to the decoding of IMEI, the user will be interested in his 7th and 8th character. It is they that contain information about the country of origin of this particular Galaxy smartphone.

Breakdown by country

Below are all the available codes that explain in which country a particular gadget was produced:

• The numbers 05 or 50 indicate that the Galaxy smartphone is made in Brazil or the United States.
• The number 08 or 80 means your Galaxy was made in Germany.
• The numbers 00 indicate that it is made in the country where it was purchased.
• The numbers 01 or 10 mean the Galaxy is made in Finland.
• Numbers 02 or 20 show that it is assembled in the UAE or India.
• The numbers 03 or 30 means your phone is made in China.
• The numbers 04 or 40 also indicate that the gadget was assembled in China.
• The numbers 06 or 60 indicate that the Galaxy smartphone was manufactured in Hong Kong, China or Mexico.
• The number 13 shows that it was produced in Azerbaijan.

Again, the country of manufacture of Samsung does not affect the quality of a particular device. Rather, it is the personal preference of users. But, according to numerous surveys, it becomes obvious that users still prefer to look for smartphones made in India.

If the IMEI line in place of the 6th and 7th characters contains numbers not from the list above, then the smartphone was manufactured in Vietnam at a partner factory. Unfortunately, this is not the best the best choice, since the device may use some components of the partner factory, and not from Samsung.

Alternative method

If you do not want to find out the country of manufacture of Samsung by the IMEI code, then this can be done using a third-party software. For example, you can install Phone Info Samsung on your smartphone. It will display information about which country is the manufacturer of Samsung on the main screen.

The named application has a very simple interface. It simply displays all the information it can extract from the device. This includes how to find out the country of manufacture of the Samsung phone. At the top of this list there is a section " general information" containing information about the country of origin of the device, the date of manufacture, as well as the status of the Knox counter.

6 years ago

It is simply impossible to imagine that some of the Russians have not heard about the Samsung Group. This industrial concern has long gained fame as a manufacturer of high-tech components, telecommunications equipment, home appliances, audio and video devices.

Samsung was founded in 1938 in South Korea Entrepreneur Lee Byung-cheol, over the past years has received recognition from buyers around the world. Samsung in translation means "three stars". And this trademark, registered in 1948, featured on the first two logos.

However, Samsung Electronics entered the semiconductor market and began to rapidly develop as a member of the high-tech industry only in 1969. And as a result, from a small family business Samsung Rice Flour Company has grown into a global corporation.

The main enterprises of Samsung Electronics in South Korea are located in Gumi and Suwon. We can say that enterprises in these cities are city-forming. However, some experts, not without reason, believe that enterprises are so large that they are cities in themselves. And at these enterprises the conveyor works non-stop. Around the clock, in three shifts and seven days a week, they produce high-quality products.

It must be admitted that for the Russian consumer, the Samsung concern is, first of all, all kinds of electronics. Samsung in the electronics industry and is currently developing very actively. In the sense that displays are produced and shipped to all corners of the planet under the Samsung brand, mobile devices, telecommunications systems, consumer electronics, IT solutions, digital photography, semiconductors and LCD monitors.

All this product in the widest range can be bought in Russian stores. In addition to the electronics industry, Samsung Group is also engaged in a number of other industries: chemical, finance and insurance, and heavy industry.

In addition to these industries, the Samsung Group companies operate in several other industries. For example, in construction, automotive, shipbuilding, medicine and light industry. Their contribution to the turnover of the concern is small, but it must be admitted that some of these companies are very noticeable in their markets.

Samsung Group today is a huge concern, which includes several dozen companies. Of course, the concern's interests lie in a number of industries, but about half of the concern's total turnover is provided by the electronics industry.