Samsung Group is Korea's largest multinational enterprise group, but also listed companies global 500, Samsung Group, including many international affiliated companies, its subsidiaries are: Samsung Electronics, Samsung, Samsung Airlines, Samsung Life Insurance, etc., business involving electronics , Finance, machinery, chemistry and many other fields. Samsung Group was founded in 1938, founded by Li Bingzhe. Samsung Group is a family business, Lee family hereditary, its various Samsung industry are family industry, and by the other members of the family management, the group leaders have passed to the third generation of Lee, Li Jianxi as the current chairman of the group, his son Li Zairong, vice president of Samsung Electronics.
On May 25, 2016, Huawei filed a lawsuit against Samsung in the United States and China, including the California North District Court and the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court. July 21, Samsung in Beijing Intellectual Property Court sued Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. patent infringement, stop production, sales mate8 and other models, claims 80.5 million. September 6, according to Dow Jones, in the hands of consumers or have reached the hands of about 2.5 million Note 7 mobile phone, 70% of the battery by the subsidiary: Samsung SDI (Samsung SDI Co.) supply, the remaining part Then use the China New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (ATL) battery. In October, Samsung Group ranked No. 20 in the world's top 100 most valuable brands in 2016. In October, Samsung recalled the Galaxy Note 7 mobile phone and announced to stop selling the phone, almost announced the flagship mobile phone "death", or Samsung lost $ 17 billion. November 4, 2016, Samsung announced that the official recall of 34 different models of washing machines.
In February 2017, Samsung Group dissolved the corporate strategy office.