Han Jong-Hee, the co-chief government of Samsung Electronics and a virtually four-decade veteran of the South Korean shopper expertise 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 government duties with the pinnacle of Samsung’s semiconductor enterprise, most lately Jun Younger-Hyun. Mr. Jun was named the only chief government of Samsung Electronics on Tuesday following Mr. Han’s loss of life, the corporate stated in a public notice.
Mr. Han had run Samsung’s shopper 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 large 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 adjustments of the Nineteen Nineties and 2000s to dominate the marketplace for flat-screen shows and cellphones.
Samsung is the most important and most profitable of the conglomerates referred to as chaebol that reworked South Korea’s financial system into a world export powerhouse. Samsung Electronics accounts for a good portion of the nation’s exports. Samsung is without doubt 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 thing from electrical vehicles and good watches to superior synthetic intelligence servers.
Mr. Han is survived by his spouse and three youngsters, the corporate stated. A funeral can be held on the funeral corridor of Samsung Seoul Hospital on Thursday, the spokeswoman stated.
