Q 01/05

What does the name Samsung mean in Korean?

A) Rising sun

B) Three stars

C) Big river

D) Golden mountain

Answer · why

B) Three stars

The founder said 'three' stood for something big and powerful and 'stars' for everlasting.

Q 02/05

In what year was Samsung founded?

A) 1948

B) 1953

C) 1969

D) 1938

Answer · why

D) 1938

It began as a small trading company under Japanese rule.

Q 03/05

Who founded Samsung?

A) Lee Kun-hee

B) Chung Ju-yung

C) Lee Byung-chul

D) Koo In-hwoi

Answer · why

C) Lee Byung-chul

He was 28 and from a large landowning family; he had studied at Waseda University in Tokyo.

Q 04/05

What did the original Samsung trading company sell?

A) Radios, batteries and lamps

B) Silk, cotton and hemp cloth

C) Coal, timber and iron ore

D) Dried fish, groceries and noodles

Answer · why

D) Dried fish, groceries and noodles

It had about forty employees in what was then called Taikyu, now Daegu.

Q 05/05

Samsung is the largest of South Korea's family-controlled conglomerates, known by what Korean word?

A) Keiretsu

B) Chaebol

C) Zaibatsu

D) Hanbok

Answer · why

B) Chaebol

Its revenue equalled 22.4% of South Korea's GDP in 2022.

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