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Samsung Corporation

Headquarters : Samsung Plaza, 263 Seohyeon-dong, Bundang-gu Songnam, Kyonggi 463-721 South Korea

web www.samsungcorp.com tel. 82-2-3706-1114 analytics

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« Ethical » rating of Samsung Corporation , group Samsung Group and subsidiaries

Labor 3 Fraud 4 Offshore 5 Sales 160 Bn $.€ /year Profit 18 Bn $.€ /1998 Influence 3

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Samsung Group

100

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2008

Samsung Heavy Industries is the world's second largest shipbuilder by sales.

Les Echos

2007

In 2007, the sales of Samsung abroad represented more than 20 % of total exports of South Korea.

AFP

2006

Samsung sold 118 million mobile telephones in the world.

Capital

2006

Samsung is the world's biggest maker of memory chips and televisions.

International Herald Tribune

2006

Third-largest cell phone maker in the world, Samsung sells 12,5% of the cell phones bought in the world.

Capital

2005

Samsung sells 10% of the digital audio players bought in the world.

Capital

2004

Samsung makes 22,5% of the LCD screens bought in the world

Les Echos

2003

Samsung sells 15% of the flat-panel TVs bought in the world.

Les Echos

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Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance

100

Samsung Motor Co.

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address & contact : production type

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Manaus :

Suzhou :

Huijou :

Tianjin :

Samsung Gulf Electronics FZE, P.O.Box : 61247 Jebel Ali & 04-813335 :

Offshore finance, secret bank account, tax haven, shell companies or free zone(s)

United Arab Emirates

Dubai Samsung Corp :

Hong-Kong

Samsung Hong Kong Ltd :

Indonesia

Cikarang : Production,

L'Expansion

Malaysia

Seremban :

Nigeria

Samsung Nigeria Co Ltd :

Panama

Samsung America Inc (Panama) :

Philippines

Star World Corp Ltd :

Philippines

Paseo de Roxas, Makati City Manila :

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Executives (4)

Labor conditions (1)

Environmental impact

Human impact

year

name

photo position; compensation

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2002Chong-Yeul, Pae

Chief Executive Officer;

2002Sung-Ha, Chi

Chief Financial Officer;

2000Myung-Kwan, Hyun

Chief Executive Officer;

1998Kun-hee, Lee

Chief Executive Officer;

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employees

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2001

4164

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1 informations, access to subscribers

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2008

The president of the South Korean group Samsung was accused, Thursday April 17, of tax avoidance and breach of trust. Lee Kun-hee will remain in freedom until the behaviour of the lawsuit just as its nine fellow accused. The investigation was launched in January after the charges carried by an old framework of the legal direction of Samsung, according to which leaders would have constituted a black case of more than 200 million dollars (125 million euros) to corrupt senior officials. If it finally exonerated Samsung of the charges of corruption, the prosecutor said to have put to the day an organization within the group intended to dissimulate several billion dollars of credits and to transfer to the children from Lee a part of the cases of the group.

AFP

2005

Samsung has agreed to pay a $300m fine after admitting it participated in a huge international price-fixing conspiracy in the market for D-Rams between 1999 and 2002.

Financial Times

2001

24,74

0,02

billion US$

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3 informations, access to subscribers

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purpose : intermediary/lobby : institution

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2007

Kim Yong-chul, Samsung’s former chief in-house lawyer and a prosecutor before that, has contended that Samsung stashed away a $217 million dollars slush fund. He said it was created with company money, hidden in dummy stock and bank accounts in the names of executives, including his own, and used to bribe politicians, prosecutors and journalists, and even to finance an art collection for the chairman’s family. :

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New York Times

2000

: Lee Kun-hee : amount: 5800 thousand US$ : president Roh Tae-woo

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Financial Times

2000

Prevent binding environmental regulations (environmental protection through economic growth, self-regulation and free trade) : WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development) : : United Nations

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Corporate Europe Observatory

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purpose : intermediary/lobby : institution

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3 informations, access to subscribers

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dubious practice : image

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1998