Queen Elisabeth Competition

Thank you, Andrew.

[singing] I'm baritone Taehan Kim, winner of the Queen Elizabeth Competition.

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Samsung Electronics has reported a third quarter preliminary operating profit of 107.4 trillion won, roughly 80.5 billion US dollars, becoming the first major technology firm and the first South Korean company to surpass that threshold, largely thanks to the booming demand for memory chips.