Samsung

Samsung Group

The Samsung Group is the world's largest conglomerate. It is South Korea's largest chaebol and composed of numerous international businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand, including Samsung Electronics, the world's largest electronics company, Samsung Heavy Industries, one of the world's largest shipbuilders and Samsung Engineering & Construction, a major global construction company. These three multinationals form the core of Samsung Group and reflect its name - the meaning of the Korean word Samsung is "tristar" or "three stars".

The Samsung brand is widely known as the best South Korean brand in the world. In 2005, Samsung overtook Japanese rival Sony as the world's leading consumer electronics brand and became part of the top twenty global brands overall in a survey by the BusinessWeek magazine. It is also the leader in many domestic industries, such as the financial, chemical, retail and entertainment industries. Samsung's strong influence in South Korea is visible throughout the nation, and is sometimes called the 'Republic of Samsung'.