The Story of Samsung

A quick history of Samsung, Korea’s technology-focused behemoth.

Ben Kageyama
Lessons from History
4 min readAug 6, 2021

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Samsung’s Lee Byung-Chul (1950), Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Despite the hardships brought by the pandemic, Samsung had sales totaling over 210 billion dollars in 2020. Net income after accounting for all expenses? A whopping $23 billion.

It’s no wonder that the closest thing Apple has to a competitor in the smartphone market is Samsung in my part of the…

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