The Samsung Town (
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: 삼성타운) is a major office park in
Seocho-gu
Seocho District () is one of the List of districts of Seoul, 25 districts which make up the city of Seoul, South Korea. Seocho is a part of the Gangnam (Seoul), Gangnam region, along with the Gangnam District, Gangnam district of Seoul. Seocho D ...
in
Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ...
, South Korea. It serves as the IT and electronics hub for the multinational corporation
Samsung
Samsung Group (; stylised as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean Multinational corporation, multinational manufacturing Conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered in the Samsung Town office complex in Seoul. The group consists of numerous a ...
.
The building has a floor area of 110,800 m
2 with 20,000 resident employees, and President
Lee Kun-hee
Lee Kun-hee (; 9 January 194225 October 2020) was a South Korean businessman who served as the chairman of Samsung from 1987 to 2008 and from 2010 to his death in 2020. He is also credited with the transformation of Samsung to one of the world' ...
's office was located on the 42nd floor of Building C.
Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (SEC; stylized as SΛMSUNG; ) is a South Korean multinational major appliance and consumer electronics corporation founded on 13 January 1969 and headquartered in Yeongtong District, Suwon, South Korea. It is curr ...
,
Samsung C&T, and Samsung Life Insurance have built three buildings which are 44, 34 and 32 stories respectively. Samsung Town was designed by
Kohn Pedersen Fox
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) is an American architectural firm based in New York City that provides architecture, interior, programming and master planning services. They engineer different projects including civic and cultural spaces, com ...
. Samsung Electronics and Samsung C&T have already begun to move into the houses while Samsung Life Insurance is leasing its property to Samsung Electronics and other affiliates.
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Samsung
Office buildings completed in 2008
Kohn Pedersen Fox buildings
Skyscraper office buildings in Seoul
2008 establishments in South Korea
Buildings and structures in Seocho District
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