Overview
- Samsung’s preliminary fourth-quarter results released Jan. 8 showed about 93 trillion won in revenue and 20 trillion won in operating profit, the company’s highest quarterly figures.
- Industry analyses attribute the surge largely to demand for high-bandwidth memory driven by hyperscale data center investment.
- At the "Restoring Samsung Values" program that began last week, Lee Jae-yong urged roughly 2,000 executives to avoid complacency and focus on rebuilding long-term technological leadership, according to participants and industry reports.
- He revived his late father Lee Kun-hee’s "sandwich crisis" framing to caution that structural risks remain despite the earnings upturn.
- Samsung has resumed groupwide executive seminars for the first time since 2016 as a mechanism to strengthen accountability and execution across affiliates.