LEE BYUNG-CHULL
1910–1987
Born into a Korean landowning family in 1910, Lee Byung-chull started a small trading company that grew into the global Samsung Group. Eager to be a market leader in all sectors, he focused on innovation, successfully making the group’s electronics division into the world’s largest producer of consumer products and fueling industrial growth in South Korea.
Lee Byung-chull attended Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, but did not complete his course. His first business venture, a rice mill, failed, but, undeterred, he set up a second, Samsung Trading Co., exporting foodstuffs ...
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