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[edit] Industries

shouldn't all industries be mentioned ? not only three...

[edit] Rename

[edit] Samsung City

Suwon, Korea is also known as Samsung city

I presume (though do not know) that this is merely an informal nickname, rather than an official designation. If I'm correct, this should be noted in the article. - Hayter 19:17, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, it is a nickname.

[edit] Clean it up

The entire intro to this page is messy, I see nearly a page of disorganized information and statistics when I view it in my browser. Can someone clean up the introduction and possibly sort this or clean it up; or at least mark this article as needing a cleanup..—Preceding unsigned comment added by Sepht (talk • contribs)

I've split some of the content into more sections, and also added the cleanup tag so that others can do more. I do agree that there seems to be too many business statistics. I suspect a lot of it may be copyvio and directly copied from some corporate web pages. -- Bovineone 20:27, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

What a mess! Who dare to upload personal pictures that include someone's namecard with a money bag to make fun of the recent litigations of Samsung in Korea? I don't know who did this such a childish actions, but never do that kind of messy thing again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.47.79.9 (talk) 02:12, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Saccharin smuggling(?) section

The following sentence is mysterious: "...saccharin, an artificial sweetener widely used in South Korea before sugar.". Saccharin has been around since the late 19th century, clearly not before sugar. Is this a bad machine translation? 01:20, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Even more mysteriously: "Samsung imported it as construction materials for a newly constructed factory." Would anyone really want to construct a factory from sacks of saccharin? Can it be cheaper than, say, sand? Isn't it water soluble? Ralphbk 09:23, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
- I understood that as Samsung deliberately mislabelling sacks of saccharin as building construction materials, say, sacks of concrete mix. However, the entire section is a bit mysterious. Why was importing saccharin wrong? —BorgHunter (talk) 04:00, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Too little info

Generally on the company itself. The information on Samsung should be huge, since it is a large and infuencial company. Can somebody help me on it? I'm not very familiar with the history of Samsung Oyo321 02:31, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] If

you have a list, then, please do add it:

Samsung Electronics saw record profits and revenue in 2004, and in 2005, overtook Sony as one of the worlds most valuable consumer electronics brands, and is now ranked #20 in the world overall.

Samsung Electronics saw record profits and revenue in 2004, and in 2005, overtook Sony as one of the world's most valuable consumer electronics brands, and is now ranked #20 in the world overall.

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I deleted the section on "legitimate inheritance." Its completely irrelevant to the main point of the article, and also giving a negative impact on Samsung's image. Oyo321 22:55, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dates?

The date of incorporation is confused and possibly incorrect.

It's shown as being established in 1938, yet the timeline says it was established in 1953. Which is it, and if it was established in 1938 what happened in the intervening 15 years? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.149.28.129 (talk) 17:08, 25 January 2007 (UTC).

To provide an ample knowledge about Samsung, please provide a page of it's series of mp3 players

[edit] Competitors Reversion

I reverted the newly and anonymously added "Competitors" as it serves little purpose (considering the size and range of activities of the Samsung Group), takes up a load of space (the page is rather too much a list of lists as it is) and is open to abuse by spamvertisers (who wants to regularly check all the links?). Let's keep it simple and relevant, eh? -- Ralphbk 08:30, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tech Support site for Samsung

Recently I had some problem with my Samsung TV and I received some help in a very recommendable tech support site, They have lots of experts and all of Samsung models!!! I really think this free tech support site can help those in need Lorial235 11:51, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Samsung dance video

I am sure some of you have seen the Samsung dance video. A few people on Youtube are saying that those are performed by trainees (summer interns?) during a 2-week session to build teamwork. Seeing that this article doesn't have a "Corporate Culture" section, wouldn't this be a nice place to start? --Voidvector 07:21, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] revenue

http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/55/55277.html

revenue for 05 is incorrect.

[edit] Where has the love gone - The Samsung Sentry Gun

Check out this page [1], I couldn't believe my eyes. It's a fully automatic combination of a detector with a gun, and it gave me the bloody creeps. Killing decided and ordered by a computer, very sweet. I think this actually deserves a mention in the official article, doesn't it? Trigaranus 15:21, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Maybe. See also Sentry gun. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 09:18, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] SAMSUNG Customer Service: Very Bad

SAMSUNG After Sales Service in Spain is: Very Bad, disastrous, "muy malo", useless.

My Samsung customers ID is: 2200475783, and I have an SR-S24FTA refrigerator, from november 2004. Now, from sept. 7th, 2007 doesn´t work and TODAY is October,2nd 2007.

I have called to Samsung service on sept 7th and, after ONE WEEK they came, chanched one spare part, I payed "for the service" 100 euros, and.....nothing, because STILL NOT WORKING.

They took another one week to came to my house to see the problem, and They said again: "now is OK", and gone. But STILL NOT WORKING.

I have called SAMSUNG SERVCE for three more times for fix the fridge, and they take ONE WEEK for coming every time, and they do NOTHING.

Now, I am calling SAMSUNG´S Headquarters in Madrid EVERY DAY, and their telephone operator says every time: "Sorry,we don´t have a complain depatment, please, call to your "AREA SAMSUNG SERVICE", which is in Sevilla, because I live in Jerez de la Frontera.

Today is OCTOBER 2nd, 2007 and my SAMSUNG refrigerator IS still out of order. PLEASE, GIVE TO ME AN ANSWER and a SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM. We are in Europe, in the XXI century!!!!!.

I am going to continue writing in newspapers and radio programs about SAMSUNG. The next refrigerator I purchase is going to be one of any other brand, but NOT SAMSUNG, OF COURSE.

Luis A. Montes. Jerez de la Frontera, España. —

is samsung really the largest chaebol? the hyundai article says hyundai is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.10.43.200 (talk) 14:36, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hello.

Wed Nov 14,2007 at 16:05 inside Netopia Internet Café. Solano(City approx 70 minutes drive SW of Cordon,Isabela),Nueva Vizcaya(Province approx 7 hrs drive NE of Manila,Metro Manila),Philippines. Bought a Samsung Colour T.V. days ago. My site is at http://michaelmanalolazo.lifeme.net Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MichaelMLazo (talk • contribs) 08:06, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Need to redirect this to "Samsung"

Just like Toyota, Honda and Sony. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.41.146.34 (talk) 06:19, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge History of Samsung into this article

SUPPORT - It is not a long article and needs to be trimmed anyway as it's full of promotional language. JPBarrass (talk) 05:32, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

SUPPORT - We have a pretty good coverage of the history of the company on here. Having a separate article doesnt bring anything new. --Mblumber (talk) 23:03, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Support --Kingj123 (talk) 06:59, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sourcing of negative information

This edit, by an unregistered user in the UK on March 31, removed several pages of text that could be considered negative. We should give the benefit of the doubt to removal of information about a currently trading business (see WP:BLP). But it looks like a lot of this material has citations to reliable sources. Please restore information that is well sourced and accurate. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 10:39, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Corruption investigation

The 2009/08 corruption investigation piece is much shorter than it was, which is only right since the company was cleared, and executives have only been charged with tax evasion. I have reverted unexplained deletions, but I would ask others to also do that if you feel it is worth keeping - I don't want to be in an edit war. How much coverage of the corruption investigation should we cover in this article? --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 19:42, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Don't glamorize Samsung

Anyone who wants to glamorize samsung as "super mulitional" corporations "leading" several fields is a joke. Reality check, Toyota, General Motors and others are much bigger than Samsung by revenue. Samsung is smaller than Toyota and General Motors. These companies are much super super larger than Samsung. Neutralize this section, because it looks childish and ignorant. Please. Samsung is not the greatest company in the world. Face reality. There are much bigger companies than Samsung like Walmart, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhilips that have revenues in the 300 billion dollars per year. Twice the revenuew of Samsung. They are not states as "super multinational" companies.71.237.70.49 (talk) 02:20, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Absolutely. I don't know what super-multinational means. Interplanetary perhaps? Wikipedia should be written in natural English, and any jargon should be explained. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 09:57, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

My edit (15th largest ...) was reverted, with no explanation. Please join the discussion here, or use edit summaries. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 12:17, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Korean editors are making this article highly POV. 71.237.70.49 (talk) 00:11, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

I think we should assume good faith in newly registered editors. I invited the editor who reverted my edit to join our discussion here. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 09:28, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

The latest edit is much better, don't make this article state "super." at all. 71.237.70.49 (talk) 03:02, 26 May 2008 (UTC)