Han Jong-Hee, the co-chief government of Samsung Electronics and an almost four-decade veteran of the South Korean client expertise big, died on Tuesday.
Mr. Han, who was 63, suffered a sudden coronary heart assault, based on an organization spokeswoman.
Mr. Han had since 2022 shared chief government duties with the top of Samsung’s semiconductor enterprise, most lately Jun Younger-Hyun. Mr. Jun was named the only real chief government of Samsung Electronics on Tuesday following Mr. Han’s demise, the corporate stated in a public notice.
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 huge 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 demise 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 biggest and most profitable of the conglomerates often known as chaebol that reworked South Korea’s economic system into a worldwide export powerhouse. Samsung Electronics accounts for a good portion of the nation’s exports. Samsung is likely one of the hottest manufacturers within the international smartphone market, the place it competes with Apple and Xiaomi. It’s also the world’s largest maker of reminiscence chips utilized in the whole lot from electrical automobiles and sensible watches to superior synthetic intelligence servers.
Mr. Han is survived by his spouse and three kids, the corporate stated. A funeral can be held on the funeral corridor of Samsung Seoul Hospital on Thursday, the spokeswoman stated.
