Lee Byung-chul
12 February 1910 – 19 November 1987
Lee Byung-chul was a South Korean businessman who founded the Samsung Group. He started Samsung as a trading company in Daegu in 1938 and expanded it after the Korean War into sugar refining, textiles, insurance, media and retail. Under his direction the group entered the electronics industry in 1969 and the semiconductor industry in the following decades.
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Life events
Born into a landowning family in South Gyeongsang Province during Japanese rule.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgEnrolled in the political economy programme but left without completing a degree.
Started a trading company dealing in dried fish, vegetables and noodles, the origin of the Samsung Group.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgFounded a sugar refinery, the group's first manufacturing venture after the Korean War.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgExpanded the group into media alongside the Samsung Foundation of Culture.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgSet up the electronics arm that initially assembled televisions and home appliances.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe purchase gave Samsung its first semiconductor manufacturing capability.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe statement, later called the Tokyo Declaration, committed the group to memory chip manufacturing.
Died of lung cancer; he was succeeded as chairman by his third son, Lee Kun-hee.
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