Samsung group was founded in 1938, and its founder was Li Bingzhe. At first, the company mainly exported dried fish, vegetables and fruits from the Korean peninsula, and gradually expanded to sugar, pharmaceutical, textile and other manufacturing industries in the 1950 s, and was established as a family business. Samsung Electronics was founded in 1969. 1In the 1980s, Samsung Electronics mainly sold refrigerators. 1986, Samsung Economic Research Institute was established in Li Bingzhe. Its subsidiaries include: Samsung Electronics, Samsung SDI, Samsung SDS, Samsung Electric, Samsung Corning, Samsung Network, Samsung Fire Protection, Samsung Securities, Samsung Products, Samsung Heavy Industry, Samsung Engineering, Samsung Airlines and Samsung Life. , managed by members of the Li family, three of which were selected as Fortune 500 companies in the world.

196, Samsung group ranked the fifth largest group in the world, including several subsidiaries and several other legal entities, and established nearly 300 legal entities and offices in nearly 70 countries and regions, with a total staff of196,000 and 62 subsidiaries.

In 2006, Samsung Group was the 35th largest economy in the world, and if ranked by country, it would be bigger than Argentina. Of the 8,782 patents registered by South Korea in the United States, Samsung Electronics applied for 36 1 1, accounting for more than 40%. From 1 to $3 1 billion in 1999 to 1 6.2 million in 2006, Samsung's brand value has increased fivefold. In 2002, the market value of Samsung Electronics in Japan surpassed Sony for the first time. Four years later, Samsung Electronics ranked among the hundreds of billions of dollars.