Also known as: Samsung Group · Samsung Electronics · Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Samsung — electronics and semiconductor company, recently launched 5G smartphones and faced labor negotiations over AI chip profits.
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Business & Financial Times
… South Korea aligned energy stability with industrial policy, enabling companies such as Samsung and Hyundai to scale globally. …
The Inconvenient Truth with Ing. Prof. Douglas BOATENG: BUI, VRA, GRIDCO, ECG, NEDCO: The fragile power supply chain beneath industrial dreamAsian stock markets suffered steep losses on Monday as investors grew concerned about overvalued artificial intelligence investments and a rise in oil prices following renewed Iran-Israel strikes. US markets recovered some losses with the Nasdaq closing up 0.9% and the S&P 500 up 0.3%, though South Korea's Kospi index fell 8.3% and Japan's Nikkei dropped 3.9%.
10 June 2026 · Joy Online →
Asian stock markets suffered steep losses on Monday as investors grew concerned about overvalued artificial intelligence investments and a rise in oil prices following renewed Iran-Israel strikes. US markets recovered some losses with the Nasdaq closing up 0.9% and the S&P 500 up 0.3%, though South Korea's Kospi index fell 8.3% and Japan's Nikkei dropped 3.9%.
10 June 2026 · Joy Online →
US stock markets recovered modestly on Monday after Friday's losses, but Asian markets fell sharply—South Korea's Kospi index closed 8.3% lower and Japan's Nikkei fell 3.9%—amid a technology stock sell-off and renewed Middle East tensions that raised oil prices and inflation concerns.
8 June 2026 · Joy Online →
A Joy Online opinion piece argues that millions of Africans prioritize securing jobs over creating businesses and employment, and that this cultural emphasis on salaries rather than wealth creation represents a significant overlooked development challenge across the continent.
1 June 2026 · Joy Online →
Shares in Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics rallied on Monday following expectations of meetings between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Korean executives to discuss AI and robotics partnerships. South Korean semiconductor exports surged to a record high in June amid the AI boom.
1 June 2026 · Joy Online →
Samsung Electronics announced the Galaxy A57 5G and Galaxy A37 5G, featuring upgraded AI capabilities, improved camera and display, and up to six generations of OS upgrades. The devices aim to bring Samsung's latest mobile innovations to a wider user base.
23 May 2026 · Business & Financial Times →
The largest union at Samsung Electronics has suspended a planned strike after reaching a last-minute tentative pay agreement, easing concerns about disruption to the world's largest memory chipmaker. The dispute centred on how to distribute profits from soaring AI chip demand, with the union representing nearly 48,000 workers securing changes to bonus distribution between memory chip divisions and other units.
21 May 2026 · Joy Online →
Pop star Dua Lipa has filed a $15m lawsuit against Samsung, alleging the company used her photograph on television packaging without permission. The image, taken during her 2024 Austin City Limits Festival performance, appeared on various TV models sold in the US; Lipa claims Samsung ignored repeated cease-and-desist demands.
12 May 2026 · The Chronicle →
Pop star Dua Lipa has filed a $15m lawsuit against Samsung, alleging it used her photograph on television packaging without permission. The image was taken during her 2024 Austin City Limits Festival performance, and Lipa's legal team says Samsung ignored repeated demands to stop the infringement.
11 May 2026 · Joy Online →
The family behind Samsung has finished paying a 12 trillion won ($8bn) inheritance tax bill—the largest in South Korean history—tied to late chairman Lee Kun-hee's estate. Chairman Lee Jae-yong and other family members made the payment in six instalments over five years, with the sum equivalent to roughly 1.5 times South Korea's total inheritance tax revenue for 2024.
4 May 2026 · Joy Online →
The Samsung family has finished paying a 12 trillion won ($8 billion) inheritance tax bill in six installments over five years, the largest such settlement in South Korea's history. The bill stems from the 26 trillion won estate left by late chairman Lee Kun-hee, who died in October 2020, and equals roughly one and a half times the country's total inheritance tax revenue for 2024.
4 May 2026 · Joy Online →
Ing. Prof. Douglas Boateng argues that Ghana's electricity challenge is fundamentally one of coordination across the entire supply chain—generation, transmission, and distribution—rather than production capacity alone, and that systems fail from lack of coordinated attention rather than lack of strength.
29 April 2026 · Business & Financial Times →