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Samsung History
Type | Chaebol | Industry | Conglomerate | Founded | 1938 | Founder(s) | Lee Byung-chul | Headquarters | Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea | Area served | Worldwide | Key people | Lee Kun-hee
(Chairman of Samsung Electronics) | Products | Apparel, chemicals, consumer electronics, electronic components, medical equipment, precision instruments, semiconductors,ships, telecommunications equipment | Services | Advertising, construction, entertainment, financial services, hospitality, information and communications technology services, medical services,retail | Revenue | US$ 247.5 billion (FY 2011)[1] | Net income | US$ 18.3 billion(FY 2011)[1] | Total assets | US$ 384.3 billion (FY 2011)[1] | Total equity | US$ 159.6 billion (FY 2011)[1] | Employees | 369,000 (FY 2011)[1] | Subsidiaries | Samsung Electronics
Samsung Life Insurance
Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance
Samsung Heavy Industries
Samsung C&T
Samsung SDS
Samsung Techwin etc. | Website | Samsung.com |

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| The Samsung Byeolpyo noodles logo, used from late 1938 until replaced in 1958. | | The Samsung Group logo, used from late 1969 until replaced in 1979 | | The Samsung Group logo (“three stars”), used from late 1980 until replaced in 1992 | | The Samsung Electronics logo, used from late 1980 until replaced in 1992 | | Samsung's current logo, in use since 1993.[115] | |

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History
1938 to 1970

The headquarters of Samsung Sanghoes in Daegu in the late 1930s
In 1938,[15] Lee Byung-chull (1910–1987) of a large landowning family in the Uiryeong county came to the nearby Daegu city and founded Samsung Sanghoe (삼성상회, 三星商會), a small trading company with forty employees located in Su-dong (now Ingyo-dong). It dealt in groceries produced in and around the city and produced its own noodles. The company prospered and Lee moved its head
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