Samsung Group - Samsung Group

Japanese: 三星財閥 - さんせいざいばつ

A representative conglomerate and business group in Korea. Its core company, Samsung Corporation (capital 141.7 billion won in 1995), was originally founded in 1937 as Samsung Shokai by Lee Byung-chul, who had started a brewing business during the Japanese colonial period. This became Samsung Corporation in 1947, and then became the current organization in 1952. It then expanded into the sugar, carding, and flour milling industries to handle American aid supplies (establishing CheilJedang in 1953 and Cheil Wool Textile in 1954, and opening a flour milling division at CheilJedang in 1958). During the post-Korean War reconstruction period, the Samsung Group expanded its business by domestically producing consumer goods that had previously been highly dependent on imports, and by the end of the 1950s it had become one of Korea's leading conglomerates.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

韓国の代表的な財閥，企業グループ。中核企業である三星物産(1995年度資本金1417億ウォン)は日本統治時代に醸造業に着手していた李秉喆（りへいてつ）が1937年に設立した三星商会が前身で，これが47年の三星物産公司を経て，52年に現在の組織となった。その後アメリカの援助物資を扱う製糖･梳毛･製粉工業に進出(1953年第一製糖，54年第一毛織を設立，58年には第一製糖に製粉部門を併設)，三星グループは朝鮮戦争後の復興期に，輸入依存度の高かった消費財の国産化を行うことによって事業を拡大し，50年代末には韓国屈指の財閥になった。

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