Three stars,
eighty-seven years

It started as a shop selling dried fish and noodles in occupied Korea. It is now roughly a fifth of South Korea's exports, the largest memory chipmaker alive, and the reason a phone in your pocket folds in half. Here is how the climb actually happened.

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Part one

Six chapters

Each era, what changed, and the milestones that landed inside it.

Part two

Signature products

Eighteen devices and processes that moved the company. Filter by decade.

Part three

Why it worked

Four habits that show up in every decade of the story.

Part four

Three generations

One family has run Samsung for its entire existence.