Founded 1938 by Lee Byung-chul, Samsung is which country's biggest business (at 2014)?
Lee Byung-chul Lee Byung-chul Lee Byung-chul (12 February 1910 – 19 November 1987) was the founder of the Samsung Group and one of South Korea's most successful businessmen. With the breakup of the Hyundai chaebol, Samsung is now South Korea's largest business group. Byung-chul was the son of a wealthy landowning family (a branch of the Gyeongju Lee clan). He attended college at Waseda University in Tokyo but did not complete his degree. Byung-chul established a trucking business in Daegu on 1 March 1938, which he named Samsung Trading Co, the forerunner to Samsung. Samsung means "Three Stars" which explains the initial
Lee Kun-hee most powerful person and the most powerful Korean by Forbes Magazine's List of The World's Most Powerful People along with his son Lee Jae-yong. Lee Kun-hee was born on 10 January 1942 in Uiryeong, South Gyeongsang, during the Japanese occupation of Korea. He is the third son of Lee Byung-chul, the founder of the Samsung group. Lee joined the Samsung Group in 1968 and took over the chairmanship on December 24, 1987, just two weeks after the death of his father, Lee Byung-chul, who founded Samsung. In the early 1990s, believing that Samsung Group was overly focused on producing massive