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Samsung's incredible success story: from grocery store to tech titans

From dried fish to folding smartphones
A modest start
Branching into textiles
Supported by the chaebol
Entering electronics
Samsung subsidiaries
Leading the way with memory chips
Exporting electronics abroad
Synonymous with shoddy goods
A watershed moment
The legendary phone funeral furnace
A necessary reinvention
Heading the mobile phone movement
Heading the digital revolution
Beset with corporate scandals
A
Number one TV producer
Lee Kun-Hee resigns
The birth of Samsung Galaxy
Success with Galaxy S
Lee Kun-Hee returns to the helm
Boosting South Korea’s Winter Olympics efforts
Think Samsung
South Korea maintains loyalty for Samsung
Galaxy Tab gets off to a bad start
Smartphone patent wars
US court rules in Apple’s favour
Samsung ranked bigger than Apple
Galaxy Note 7 fire fiasco
Jail and early release of Lee Jae-yong
The foldable smartphone
World’s 15th largest company
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From dried fish to folding smartphones

Synonymous with being the height of hi-tech and sleek design, it’s hard to believe Samsung was once a one-man grocery store trading local produce in South Korea. During its journey to becoming the world’s second largest tech company, boasting a profit of $41 billion (£32.5bn) in 2018, it has faced trials, accusations and setbacks. This is the incredible story of Samsung, from its humble import-export beginnings to global tech domination and its latest 'folding' smartphone.

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21 August 2019

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