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Talking Picasso, Munch Quizzes: A Whole New Way of Enjoying Art

2013-06-18T05:09:22+01:00

Can you imagine Pablo Picasso – one of the greatest artists of the 21st century – talking to you while you’re looking at his paintings? His paintings will even make movements, giving fresh life to the artwork. It might sound too much like a fiction, but this is exactly what you can experience in Albertina Museum of Art, located in the heart of Vienna, Austria! Our colleagues at Samsung Electronics...

Samsung Heavy Industries Wins Order for World’s Largest FPSO

2013-06-13T07:34:55+01:00

Just yesterday, we shared with you news that our shipbuilding affiliate, Samsung Heavy Industries, won its first order to build jack-up rigs, which are to be the world’s largest. Today, they announced that they have won another order for an FPSO (floating production storage and offloading) unit, also to be the world’s largest. The $3 billion order from Nigeria attests to Samsung Heavy Industries’ proven leadership in building offshore plants....

Samsung Heavy Industries Wins Order for World’s Largest Jack-up Rigs

2013-06-12T06:06:39+01:00

Samsung Heavy Industries, our shipbuilding affiliate, has won a $1.3 billion order to build the world’s largest jack-up rigs for Statoil, a Norwegian energy company, in marking a successful foray into a rising segment in the industry. With the order, Samsung Heavy Industries will build and deliver two jack-up rigs, with an option to build two more. The units, once completed, are expected to be put to use in the...

Samsung Electronics Opens New R5 Research Institute

2013-06-10T03:34:04+01:00

Samsung Electronics announced today the opening of the R5 research institute within Samsung Digital City in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province. Oh-Hyun Kwon and JK Shin, co-CEOs of Samsung Electronics, presided over the opening ceremony which was attended by Moon-soo Kim, Governor of Gyeonggi Province; Tae-young Yeom, Suwon City Mayor; and other important dignitaries. R5, the fifth Samsung research center in Suwon Digital City R5 is the fifth Samsung research institute to...

The New Face of Seoul with Samsung’s Green Touch

2013-06-07T02:07:45+01:00

In the heart of central Seoul, the capital of Korea, stands a stunning glass-walled building with elegant curves that has emerged as the city’s newest landmark. It’s the new city hall that opened its doors in September last year and it’s constructed by one of our affiliates, Samsung C&T. The new face of Seoul Hovering over the old city hall, which has been remodeled to be used as a public...

GALAXY S4 Sweeps the World in Style

2013-06-04T05:44:43+01:00

Following the unveiling of the new GALAXY S4 in New York in March, Samsung has taken its new flagship smartphone on a World Tour to major cities around the globe. Did any one of you get a chance to meet the new GALAXY in your area? How did you like it? Today, for some of you who couldn’t make it to the event, we will give you a glimpse of...

How Quest for a Better Life Created Robots for Building Ships

2013-05-30T01:04:27+01:00

Where would you expect to see a spider robot? You might think perhaps in science fiction movies. The robot we are going to tell you about today actually exists at Geoje Shipyard – the heart of Samsung Heavy Industries’ shipbuilding process. What’s a spider robot doing there? And here’s a technology guru who can answer this question. For our latest post in the Samsung Fellow interview series, Samsung Village met...

Cheil Worldwide’s New Corporate Identity Envisions ‘Ideas That Move’

2013-05-28T04:38:10+01:00

Cheil Worldwide, our advertising affiliate, went a little wild this year to celebrate its birthday, launching a new corporate identity complete with a new logo and a new slogan! Why don’t we take a closer look at how its face has been transformed? We provide Ideas that Move “Ideas that Move” is the new slogan revealed on May 15 on the occasion of Cheil Worldwide’s 40th birthday, entailing its vision...

GALAXY S4 Hits 10 Million Milestone in First Month

2013-05-23T05:42:43+01:00

Our Samsung Electronics affiliate today announced that global channel sales of its GALAXY S4, a life companion for a richer, fuller, simpler life, has surpassed 10 million units sold in less than one month after its commercial debut. Launched globally on April 27, the phone is estimated to be selling at a rate of four units per second. The GALAXY S4 sets a new record for Samsung, generating sales quicker...

AMOLED Displays as Driver for Innovation in Cloud Computing Era

2013-05-22T03:12:36+01:00

We shared with you news earlier this week that our Samsung Display affiliate, the world’s largest display manufacturer, is taking part in the Society for Information Display’s Display Week 2013 in Vancouver, Canada. And its CEO Kinam Kim delivered a keynote speech on “Display and Innovation” during the event, which runs through May 23. During the keynote speech, Mr. Kim said that the future of displays will change considerably, with...