Biography of Lee Byung Chull, founder of Samsung

Lee Byung-Chull is the founder of the South Korean electronics giant Samsung. Lee comes from a wealthy family was born February 12, 1910 and died 19 November 1987 at the age of 77 years. Prior to founding Samsung electronic, Lee opened the rice milling business, but does not develop. He then switches to build the business exporter of fish, vegetables and fruits to China. His business is growing rapidly until he moved into offices in Seoul in 1947.


After the Korean War broke out, he meinggalkan Seoul and built the first sugar mill in South Korea in Busan city that is named Cheil Jedang. In 1954 after the Korean War, he expanded the company to build in areas Chimsan wool-dong, Daegu. The company expanded into the largest woolen mills in Korea. Continues its expansion by setting up a company engaged in finance, production of chemicals, to shipbuilding.


Samsung then menggurita penetrated the field of electronics at the end of 1960. Samsung's first product when it is black and white television. In 1969, Samsung Electronics is best known for producing anything from Samsung Samsung is currently the Television, Mobile Phones (all 90's), Radio, Computer components and electronic devices lainnyaUntuk effectiveness of the production management company later split into several divisions are responsible for a particular product Devices such as Electronics Co., Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Samsung Corning Co., and Samsung Semiconductor & Telecommunications Co..



After Samsung acquired Hanguk tongsin jeonja in Gumi in 1980, the company is now developing products with the initial product in the field of telecommunication switchboards. The product is then developed to produce a phone, fax, and eventually evolved into Samsung's mobile phone manufacturing. From the Samsung factory has produced over 0.8 billion mobile phones until now.



In the decade of the 1980s Samsung has become a manufacturing company and distributor of various appliances and electronic products worldwide. Samsung Electronics beginning in 1990 did a lot of investment and business development to become an international electronics company with the scale. For reaching the market in different continents, Samsung to build a branch of production in Portugal, New York (United States), United Kingdom, Germany, Thailand, Mexico, Spain and China until 1997