200 Amazing Facts About Samsung

200 Amazing Facts About Samsung

Samsung is the world’s largest IT company.
Samsung makes the Retina Display for Apple.
There are 33 Samsung’s R&D centers all over the world.
There are 100 Samsung TVs being sold every minute.
Samsung is also the No. 1 manufacturer of refrigerators in the world.
In fact, Samsung Group produces around one-fifth of South Korea’s total exports.
Samsung spends an amazing $40 million daily for research & development.
The word “three” represents something “big, numerous and powerful”
Samsung was founded by Lee Byung-chul in 1938 as a trading company.
Samsung has a powerful influence on South Korea’s economic development, politics, media and culture and has been a major driving force behind the “Miracle on the Han River”.
Its affiliate companies produce around a fifth of South Korea’s total exports.
Samsung’s revenue was equal to 17% of South Korea’s $1,082 billion GDP.
Samsung started out as a small trading company with forty employees located in Su-dong (now Ingyo-dong). It dealt in dried-fish,locally-grown groceries and noodles.
The company prospered and Lee moved its head office to Seoul in 1947.
Samsung has a military branch. They’re producing jet engines, robots, and howitzers.
In December 2011, Samsung Electronics sold its hard disk drive business to Seagate.
Samsung was the main contractor at the construction of the Burj Khalifa.
The first 3G call made from the Summit of Mt. Everest was with a Samsung Galaxy.
Samsung sued Apple over smiley face input method.
Samsung has around $14 Billion annual marketing budget.
Root access was so difficult to achieve on the Samsung Galaxy S5 that there was a bounty for a working root technique, a bounty that reached a total of $18,000.
When Samsung gave out Galaxy S7 phones to athletes at the Rio Olympics, the North Korean team’s phones were confiscated by the North Korean government.
Samsung has a huge office park in Seoul all to itself, called “SamsungTown”.
Samsung made fighter jet, helicopters, and mobile artillery for South Korean army.
They own South Korea’s largest theme park, Everland.
They build some major skyscrapers including Burj Khalifa, Taipei 101, and Petronas Tower.
Samsung donates $100 million to its non-profit medical center every year.
Since the founding of Samsung Electronics, Samsung’s logo has only changed three times.
One out of every three smartphones sold all over the world bears Samsung brand on it.
There are 100 Samsung TVs being sold in every minute.
70% of smartphones in the world are applied DRAM made by Samsung.
Samsung files about 5000 patents in the US (2nd) and about 2500 (1 st) in European Union every year.
Samsung was in fact pioneer in introducing SCH-100 in 1996, using CDMA technology. It had some real advantages over GSM.
In 1999, Samsung was the first pioneer to build a watch that also doubled as a phone called the Samsung SPH-WP10 which could not only tell time, it also could make phone calls for up to 90 minutes. After that, the battery would run out.
Samsung introduced the first “PDA phone” with a color display in the US market in 2001 called the SPH-i300.
Amazingly the Samsung Group has 59 unlisted companies and 19 listed. They often compete with one another. These companies range from constructions to financial services, shipbuilding, and medical. It employs over 320,000 people across 84 countries.
Samsung overtook Japanese Sony as the most popular electronics brand in 2004.
Samsung is currently the largest smartphone manufacturer shipping about 335 million smartphones followed by Apple and Huawei.
There is a South Korean equivalent of a Nobel Prize called the “Ho-Am Prize” which is funded by Samsung.
In 2014, the total revenue of the company was $305 billion and the company spent $14 billion alone in advertising and marketing of its products.
The name of the company “Samsung” means “three stars”. It was chosen by the founder Lee Byung-chull with the hope for his company to develop in scale and power like stars in the sky.
As of 2014, they’ve 489,000 employees world wide — that is more employees than Apple, Microsoft and Google combined.
Samsung’s revenue was equal to 17% of South Korea’s $1,082 billion GDP
Initially, they sold groceries and noodles at the time they founded the company in 1938. After that, they added securities and retail business in the late 1950s.
Samsung presented in 1994 the first Korean-built electric car the SEV-III.
Samsung claimed that its Galaxy customers do not have the right to sue the company for fire-related damages by Samsung phones.
Samsung maintains major operations of Harman/Kardon, AKG, JBL, JBL Professional, AMX, Crown Audio, Infinity, Lexicon, dbx, DigiTech, Mark Levinson, Martin, Revel, Soundcraft, Studer more than twenty company’s.
The song Samsung washers play is based on Schubert’s “Die Forelle”, a song about a fisherman who muddies water to catch a trout.
The wasn’t into the electronic business until the 1970s — it’s the year when they produced first television, 12-inch black and white.
The first-ever commercial cell phone was sold over only 2,000 units.
Samsung holds 22.4% smartphone market share (in 2015). They sold over 325 million smartphones in 2015. Apple sold 231 million units.
At one point following the release of the Samsung S3 sales reached 500 units a minute.
Samsung is delving into the world of AI technology for their mobile devices rivaling the likes of Cortana or Siri. Samsung’s S8 was the first device to use the flagship Bixby system.
53,400 employees have received over 64 courses through Samsung’s HR Development Center since 1993.
Samsung’s Shipbuilding sector, whose center spans 400 million sq. feet (37.16 sq. km), builds more than 30 large ships per year.
Samsung means three stars in Korean, Lee Byung-Chull Samsung founder decided to use the name after his vision for a company as everlasting as the stars.
The Samsung logo we all know and recognize only came into use in 1993, prior to that there were 2 other logos, created in 1969 and 1980 respectively.
Lee Kun Hee the chairman of Samsung made staff create a pile of 150,000 phone and fax machines before destroying them in front of the 2000-strong crowd to make a point about the new era of quality-driven products.
Samsung now has 489,000 employees and its revenue is equal to 17% of South Korea’s GDP.
In 2012, Apple attempted to sue Samsung in the UK court system, lost and was ordered to display advertisements on their website and billboards stating that Samsung had not infringed upon their rights.
Samsung smartphones come with a built-in FM radio feature/chip, but turn it off in order to profit from streaming data through cellular providers.
Samsung made an “Ass-Robot” just to prove that their phone wouldn’t bend.
In 2008, the President & CEO of Samsung was charged for bribing influential prosecutors, judges and other political figures in South Korea. He was fined $109m and sentenced to 3 years in jail and still has not responded to his verdict.
In 1995, Samsung CEO Kun-hee Lee was so disgusted by the low quality of the company’s phones and other electronics that he ordered a bonfire built and burned it all, around $50 million worth, in front of 2000 employees, many of whom cried.
In 2003, Samsung made a limited edition phone modeled after the phone in “Matrix Reloaded”.
Samsung’s S Voice and Apple’s Siri had an older sibling named Smarterchild that was founded by ActiveBuddy in 2000 and later acquired and decommissioned by Microsoft in 2007.
In 2014, the United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Samsung 4,952 patents in 2014, or an average of 13.5 a day.
In the late 1960s, Samsung Group entered the electronics industry. It formed several electronics-related divisions, such as Samsung Electronics Devices, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Samsung Corning and Samsung Semiconductor & Telecommunications, and made the facility in Suwon. Its first product was a black-and-white television set.
In 1980, Samsung acquired the Gumi-based Hanguk Jeonja Tongsin and entered telecommunications hardware. Its early products were switchboards. The facility was developed into the telephone and fax manufacturing systems and became the center of Samsung’s mobile phone manufacturing. They have produced over 800 million mobile phones to date.[21] The company grouped them together under Samsung Electronics in the 1980s.
After Lee, the founder’s death in 1987, Samsung Group was separated into four business groups—Samsung Group, Shinsegae Group, CJ Group and the Hansol Group.
In August 2016, due to battery malfunctions, Samsung recalled 2.5 million Note 7’s.
Samsung secured more patents than any other company worldwide with 7670 U.S. patents.
In Samsung’s Silicon Valley US Headquarters, 34 electrical car charging ports have been installed to persuade staff to move the electrical vehicles and help commuters.
In New York Samsung have a building called 837, known as a digital playground it’s dedicated to showing off Samsung kit, from a huge theater display made of ninety-six 55” screens to a VR Tunnel and family-focused Playroom using Galaxy View.
As of 2013, Samsung had over 460% more employees than Apple with Samsung employing over 370,000 and Apple merely 80,000.
Samsung initially sold noodles and other produce, it wasn’t until 1970 that the first electrical product was sold by Samsung; a 12 inch Black & White TV.
Samsung are very focused on creating as much as possible in-house, around 90% of Samsung equipment is made in Samsung factories.
Six Flags and Samsung teamed up in 2016 to create North America’s first Virtual Reality Rollercoasters which used Samsung VR equipment. Following on from this, the pair have started a new collaboration to create a VR game for rollercoaster riders.
Samsung truly is a world-wide employer, in 79 countries they employ over 236,000 staff.
Samsung is always at the forefront of technology. They created the digital TV in 1998, the Watch phone and MP3 phone in 1999, the 3D home theater in 2010 and the world’s first curved smartphone display in 2013.
In 2016 Samsung shipped 306 million units worldwide which’s an increase of 283.1 million units compared to 2010.
South Korea’s Air force has a lot to thank Samsung for. The Electronics giant actually created their first-ever fighter jet the KF-16.
In May 2017, Samsung was given permission to carry out trials of a self-driving car in South Korea.
In 2012, Samsung invested $10.8 billion in Research and Development which was over 6% of the company’s revenue which is around a ¼ of employees or 60,000 staff.
Samsung lost a patent battle to rivals Huawei in 2017 after claims that over 20 devices used technology that Samsung hadn’t granted permission. Worldwide Huawei is 3rd in the smartphone producers with Samsung being 1st.
Samsung is very focused on sustainability, in 2015 they began working with the UN to ensure 17 Sustainable Development Goals are met between 2016 and 2030 these include gender equality, ending hunger through sustainable agriculture, and combat climate change.
In 2014, a man killed his Thai girlfriend in their home with a Samsung Tablet after forbidding her to go on Facebook.
All Samsung products since 2013 receive the global standard environmental certifications.
Between 2009 and 2013, the company has $4.8 billion invested in reducing 85 million tonnes of greenhouse gases.
Samsung was established in 1938 which is exactly 38 years prior to Apple.
Samsung’s business empire stretches across many different areas not just technology. Its construction sector was responsible for constructing the world’s tallest building the Burj Khalifa.
In January 2017, Lee Jae-yong Samsung’s Chief, was questioned as part of South Korea’s largest political corruption scandal according to the BBC over accusations of questionable donations.
In February 2017 Samsung managed to secure another world first after their QLED TV managed to be the first TV ever to be capable of reaching 100 percent color volume meaning a truer picture and more defined image.
Starting from 2006, Samsung has remained the largest television manufacturer in the world and it also is the world’s largest manufacturer of LCD panels.
In Korean the word Samsung means “three stars”. The founder of the Samsung Group wanted to indicate that the company was big, powerful and numerous ( Samsung electronics is a subsidiary of the Samsung Group). The stars also stood for eternity.
Since 1993, Samsung Electronics has been the largest producer of memory chips in the world.
The company became the world’s largest smartphone maker in 2011.
Lee Byung Chull founded Samsung in 1938 as a trading company that dealt in local groceries and had 40 employees. At that point of time it used to produce noodles as well. It was only in the late 1960’s that the group ventured into electronics and eventually formed Samsung Electronics.
The first ever mobile device launched by Samsung Electronics was the 1986- manufactured car phone. Its manufacture had to be discontinued due to bad reception and poor sales.
The world’s first 3-D home theatre was launched by the company in 2010.
In 2010, Samsung Electronics launched the first Bada platform-based smartphone.
The world’s first Full HD 3D LED TV was launched by Samsung in 2010.
The flexible AMOLED panel that was developed by Samsung for mobile phones has WVGA resolution that is four times clearer than the traditional displays.
It comprises numerous affiliated businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand, and is the largest South Korean chaebol (business conglomerate).
According to Samsung’s founder, the meaning of the Korean hanja word Samsung (三星) is “tri-star” or “three stars”.
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.
As of 2012, Samsung has invested more than US$13,000,000,000 in the Austin facility, which operates under the name Samsung Austin Semiconductor. This makes the Austin location the largest foreign investment in Texas and one of the largest single foreign investments in the United States.
Samsung’s construction division in fact built the Burj Khalifa the tallest building in the world. It has also built Taipei 101 & Petronas Tower-2 as primary Contractors.
Samsung is known for very aggressive advertising more than any other company. Its advertising budget is mindboggling $14 billion for a revenue of more than $300 billion.
Amazingly CPU chips for all Apple 4,45,5,5s are solely manufactured by Samsung. They number about 600 Million a year.
70% of smartphones in the world contain DRAM manufactured by Samsung. Since 1993, Samsung Electronics has been the largest producer of memory chips in the world.
Samsung lists 145 products on its web site under the “cell phones” category. In contrast, Apple has three phones in two different colors.
To make sure the best quality products, 90% of the company’s products are manufactured in Samsung’s own factories.
Samsung started to rise as an international corporation in the 1990s. Samsung’s construction branch was awarded contracts to build one of the two Petronas Towers in Malaysia, Taipei 101 in Taiwan and the Burj Khalifa in United Arab Emirates. In 1993, Lee Kun-hee sold off ten of Samsung Group’s subsidiaries, downsized the company, and merged other operations to concentrate on three industries: electronics, engineering and chemicals. In 1996, the Samsung Group reacquired the Sungkyunkwan University foundation.
Samsung became the world’s largest producer of memory chips in 1992 and is the world’s second-largest chipmaker after Intel (see Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Market Share Ranking Year by Year).
In 2010, Samsung announced a ten-year growth strategy centered around five businesses. One of these businesses was to be focused on biopharmaceuticals, to which has committed ₩2,100,000,000,000.
In first quarter of 2012, Samsung Electronics became the world’s largest mobile phone maker by unit sales, overtaking Nokia, which had been the market leader since 1998.
On 21 August’s edition of the Austin American-Statesman, Samsung confirmed plans to spend 3 to 4 billion dollars converting half of its Austin chip manufacturing plant to a more profitable chip. The conversion should start in early 2013 with production on line by the end of 2013. On 14 March 2013, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S4.
On 24 August 2012, nine American jurors ruled that Samsung had to pay Apple $1.05 billion in damages for violati.
The founder of Samsung Lee Byung Chul had high ambitions for his company founded in 1938.
The company’s name choice built from the Korean words sam (three) and sung (stars) meant three stars representing something “big, numerous and powerful”.
Samsung initially sold groceries & noodles with just 40 employees. It added insurance & securities business in the late 1950s.
Samsung introduced 12 Inch Black & white TV in 1970. The first Samsung computer came in 1983 followed by the first cellphone in 1985.
While the Samsung logo changed a few times prior to the 70s, after this, it has changed only three times until the current logo introduced in 1993.
Samsung shipping division builds 30 large ships per year. It has a massive four million square foot shipyard.
One out of every three smartphones sold all over the world bears the Samsung brand on it.
Samsung accounts for 17 percent of Korea’s Gross Domestic Product.
Amazingly Samsung has been the top-selling TV maker in the world for the last ten straight years having about 28% market share.
Samsung Techwin made the first fighter jet of South Korea named KF-16. It also manufactures helicopters & jet engines.
Samsung Techwin also built K9 thunder which is an anti-infantry tank that can target up to 40 km.
Samsung has also built SGR A1 robotic machine gun that can identify & shoot a target 3.2 km away.
Samsung owns South Korea’s largest theme park called Everland.
Samsung donates $100 million to a non-profit medical center every year which employs 1200 doctors & 2300 nurses.
Samsung has 60 % of the mobile market of South Korea while apple has 14%. In contrast in the US, Apple has a 40% share while Samsung has a 26%.
A man asked Samsung for a phone in exchange of a drawing he made of a dinosaur. Samsung sent him a phone with the drawing printed on the phone case.
Samsung was originally founded as a 40-employee trading company in 1938. It dealt in groceries produced in and around the city and produced its own noodles.
In late 2004, Samsung had the opportunity to buy Android, but passed on the investment because they did not see any potential. Google acquired it two weeks later.
For years Samsung and other major tech companies colluded to exclude proposals from other companies in IEEE Wifi Workgroup. After the group DensiFi was found out, they dissolved it and faced 0 consequence and proceeded to remove the scandal from Wiki.
Samsung’s chairman went on a three-day rant to his hundreds of executives in a German hotel conference room. Samsung took his speech, turned it into a book about management and used it as its guiding principles from there on in.
Because so many people jumped off the Mapo Bridge in Seoul, Samsung paid to put up signs which would light up and greet people, hoping to deter suicide. Unfortunately, the suicide rate off the Mapo Bridge was six times higher the following year.
Samsung owns the biggest credit card company in South Korea, it’s called Samsung Card.
Samsung has created a high-tech dog house that retails at $30,000. It comes with an automatic food dispenser, a grass turf covered treadmill, a hydrotherapy pool, vinyl walls that the owner can cover with photos, and a Samsung Galaxy Tab S.
Samsung’s holding is so diverse that it owns a significant portion of the clothing brand FUBU. Although Samsung has partially owned FUBU since 1995, Samsung’s involvement has led to a recent resurgence of the brand’s popularity in South Korea.
They spent $14.1 billion for research and development while Apple spent $6 billion.
The CPU chips of iPhone 4 series, iPhone 5 series and of some major iPad series was manufactured by Samsung.
They held 95.8% of AMOLED display panel, and 27.5% of global TV market share in 2015.
Samsung is composed of 80 different business including Samsung Heavy industries, which builds 30 vessels every year.
Samsung and its affiliates produce around a fifth of a fifth of South Korea’s total exports (South Korea’s is world’s fifth largest exporter with more than $628 billion of export which is nearly double of what India export).
Samsung’s CEO Lee Kun-hee is one of the richest person in the world with estimated net worth of $12.6 billion and is 41st most powerful person in world.
The world’s tallest skyscraper building Burj Khalifa, The 4th tallest Taipei 101 are actually built by Samsung C&T Corporation.
Samsung diversified into many different areas. Lee sought to establish Samsung as leader in a wide range of industries. Samsung moved into lines of business such as insurance, securities and retail. President Park Chung Hee placed great importance on industrialization.
He focused his economic development strategy on a handful of large domestic conglomerates, protecting them from competition and assisting them financially
In 1947, Cho Hong-jai, the Hyosung group’s founder, jointly invested in a new company called Samsung Mulsan Gongsa, or the Samsung Trading Corporation, with the Samsung’s founder Lee Byung-chull. The trading firm grew to become the present-day Samsung C&T Corporation. After a few years, Cho and Lee separated due to differences in management style. Cho wanted a 30 equity share. Samsung Group was separated into Samsung Group and Hyosung Group, Hankook Tire and other businesses.
In 1980s, Samsung Electronics began to invest heavily in research and development, investments that were pivotal in pushing the company to the forefront of the global electronics industry. In 1982, it built a television assembly plant in Portugal; in 1984, a plant in New York; in 1985, a plant in Tokyo; in 1987, a facility in England; and another facility in Austin, Texas, in 1996.
Samsung has built a sentry gun which sits in the Demilitarised Zone between North and South Korea, which is hostile to anyone it senses who cannot provide an authorised access code.
Wheel of Fortune’s Vanna White sued Samsung Electronics in 1993 over its use of a humorous ad featuring a robot turning letters on a game show, alleging a violation of her personality rights. White was ultimately awarded $403,000 in damages.
In 1995, Chairman Kun hee Lee was frustrated with the product quality and lack of commitment for this. With the aim of creating a greater understanding of the importance of products’ quality, he gathered 150,000 phones, TV, and fax machines in piles. Lee and his board of directors then proceeded to destroy all these products, even employing heavy to break the cases and screens. Lee made sure that his 2000 employees watched the show marking a new era of superior quality. In the process, $50 million worth of hardware was destroyed. The quick growth and global success have continued since then.
Compared to other major Korean companies, Samsung survived the 1997 Asian financial crisis relatively unharmed. However, Samsung Motor was sold to Renault at a significant loss. As of 2010, Renault Samsung is 80.1 percent owned by Renault and 19.9 percent owned by Samsung. Additionally, Samsung manufactured a range of aircraft from the 1980s to 1990s. The company was founded in 1999 as Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), the result of merger between then three domestic major aerospace divisions of Samsung Aerospace, Daewoo Heavy Industries and Hyundai Space and Aircraft Company. However, Samsung still manufactures aircraft engines and gas turbines.
In 2000, Samsung opened a computer programming laboratory in Warsaw, Poland. Its work began with set-top-box technology before moving into digital TV and smartphones. As of 2011, the Warsaw base is Samsung’s most important R&D center in Europe, forecast to be recruiting 400 new-hires per year by the end of 2013.

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