Samsung
Suwon-based flagship company of the Samsung group, making Galaxy smartphones, memory and logic chips, televisions and appliances; it reported revenue of KRW 333.6 trillion for 2025.
Industry: Consumer electronics and semiconductors | Location: Suwon, South Korea
About Samsung
Samsung Electronics is the electronics company of South Korea's Samsung group, with its headquarters in Suwon. The company describes four business areas: Consumer Electronics, IT and Mobile Communications, Device Solutions and an R&D Center. For reporting it is organised into Device eXperience, which covers mobile phones, televisions, digital appliances and networks, and Device Solutions, which covers memory, System LSI and foundry chipmaking.
The company dates its founding to 1969 and was renamed Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. in 1984. Lee Jae-yong was named chairman by the board in October 2022 after serving as vice chairman since 2012. In November 2025 Samsung returned to a two-CEO structure, with Vice Chair Jun Young-hyun running the chip business and President Roh Tae-moon heading Device eXperience.
Its products include Galaxy smartphones, tablets, laptops, watches and the Galaxy Ring, as well as OLED and Neo QLED televisions, Bespoke home appliances, and DRAM, V-NAND and SSD memory and storage. The company lists 3nm gate-all-around chip technology and the Samsung Gauss generative AI model among its technologies. In Saudi Arabia it runs a local website with experience stores and service centres, and its Samsung Pay wallet operates over the national mada payment network.
Samsung announced the acquisition of Harman International in November 2016, reported at USD 8 billion, and the company says the deal was completed in 2017. It also lists SmartThings and Dacor among its acquisitions and affiliates.
Samsung Electronics shares trade on the Korea Exchange under the code 005930. For 2025 the company reported revenue of KRW 333.6 trillion, up 10.9 percent, operating profit of KRW 43.6 trillion and net income of KRW 45.2 trillion. Fourth-quarter operating profit of KRW 20.07 trillion was the first time a Korean company had passed KRW 20 trillion in a quarter, according to Kyunghyang Shinmun.
TechScoop reported in June 2026 that Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron had shifted production toward high-bandwidth memory. The company says its global semiconductor sites hold a Gold-level Zero Waste to Landfill validation from UL Solutions, awarded in 2020.
Leadership
- Lee Jae-yong, Executive Chairman
- Jun Young-hyun, Vice Chair, Co-CEO and Head of Device Solutions
- Roh Tae-moon, President, Co-CEO and Head of Device eXperience
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