Samsung Group

Taiwan-based TSMC, it's not attempting to build the 4F, so it wasn't as badly affected on the markets.

But SK Hynix and Samsung Group comprise about 50% to 52% of South Korea's stock market.

So we can show you here some of those big markets across the Asia-Pacific today.

They're obviously heavily involved in the semiconductor industry.

By nominal GDP, South Korea has the tenth largest economy in the world, a fact that has much to do with a single company.

Before there was a Republic of Korea and before there was a war to define the economic doctrine of Korea, there was a grocery trading shop in the southern city of Daegu that dealt in fish and noodles and went by the name of Samsung.

While the shop's owner, Lee Byung-chul, couldn't have known it in 1938, his business would soon serve as the backbone of one of the most dramatic economic transformations of the 20th century, what economists would come to call the Miracle on the Han River.

Now, miracle is a bit of a misnomer.

But war and South Korea's reversal of fortunes in the years that followed created opportunity.

In the midst of the Korean War's wreckage, Lee pivoted.

In 1953, with leftover Japanese colonial assets selling for cents on the dollar and much of South Korea's already meager industrial infrastructure in ruin, Lee launched Choe Jidang, a sugar refinery, then in the year following, Choe Mujuk, a wool mill, both under what could now be considered the Samsung Group.

For Lee, it was a logical progression as South Koreans desperately needed everyday products and food while South Korea's first president, Syngman Rhee, had begun funneling international aid to allied industrialists in hopes of reducing reliance on imports.

Right.

Think Samsung or Hyundai.

Yeah, this guy is corporate royalty.

Total royalty.

And we have more spending in the AI space.

A consortium of Samsung Group companies, including Samsung Electronics, CNT and Samsung Life Insurance, have agreed to invest a combined $1 billion in Helix Digital Infrastructure.

Helix is a US company backed by global investment firm KKR, launched in June alongside Nvidia and Kuwait Investment Authority with over $10 billion in committed capital.

Helix focuses on developing hyperscale data centres, power generation and fibre networks.

The show is a joint effort between Korea's National Museum, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, and the British Museum itself, showcasing around 180 treasured artifacts and national heirlooms spanning two millennia of Korean art and culture.

Lee's signature deep, steady voice will guide visitors through the exhibit, which also features pieces donated by the family of the late Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee.

This isn't Lee's first foray into cultural narration either.

Following his voice work in Netflix's animated hit K-Pop Demon Hunters and an audio guide for a special exhibit between Korea's National Museum and New York's Metropolitan Museum, and fans can catch the British Museum exhibition running from October 1st through January 31st of next year.