Han Jong-Hee, the co-chief govt of Samsung Electronics and a virtually four-decade veteran of the South Korean client know-how large, died on Tuesday.
Mr. Han, who was 63, suffered a sudden coronary heart assault, in accordance with an organization spokeswoman.
Mr. Han had since 2022 shared chief govt duties with the top of Samsung’s semiconductor enterprise, most not too long ago Jun Younger-Hyun. Mr. Jun was named the only chief govt of Samsung Electronics on Tuesday following Mr. Han’s loss of life, the corporate stated in a public discover.
Mr. Han had run Samsung’s client electronics enterprise since 2021 and a yr later added the digital equipment operation to his transient. He additionally had been a member of the board. Beforehand he oversaw the group that makes the visible shows for Samsung’s broad number of digital gadgets.
Mr. Han graduated from Inha College in Incheon, South Korea, with a level in electrical engineering. He joined Samsung in 1988 shortly after the loss of life of its founder, Lee Byung-chull, throughout a pivotal interval within the firm’s historical past.
Mr. Lee’s son and successor pushed Samsung relentlessly to climate the technological modifications of the Nineteen Nineties and 2000s to dominate the marketplace for flat-screen shows and cell phones.
Samsung is the biggest and most profitable of the conglomerates often called chaebol that remodeled South Korea’s economic system into a world export powerhouse. Samsung Electronics accounts for a good portion of the nation’s exports. Samsung is likely one of the hottest manufacturers within the world smartphone market, the place it competes with Apple and Xiaomi. Additionally it is the world’s largest maker of reminiscence chips utilized in every part from electrical vehicles and sensible watches to superior synthetic intelligence servers.
Mr. Han is survived by his spouse and three kids, the corporate stated. A funeral could be held on the funeral corridor of Samsung Seoul Hospital on Thursday, the spokeswoman stated.
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