[사설]Inauguration Ilsung Gwangju ‘win-win’ move … Expectations of Lee Jae-yong’s management philosophy

Samsung Electronics President Jae-yong Lee first visited the Gwangju plant and partner companies with an external program two days after being promoted to official president, attracting interest in future moves.

The fact that the head of the Samsung group sought partners, not major affiliates, was an expression of President Lee’s “future company” and the desire for win-win growth, raising expectations that the social company and contribution. social media will expand further in the future. .

On the 28th, President Lee Jae-yong visited ‘DK’, a cooperative company of Samsung Electronics in Gwangju. That day, President Lee looked around the DK production line wearing work clothes for the employees of the Gwangju plant. President Lee stressed the win-win cooperation on the site, saying, “If our partner companies do well, our company will do well too.”

President Lee stressed the “Comrade Philosophy” that “sharing and growing together is the way to become the best in the world” and the first official program was “Local Partners” as he emphasized win-win cooperation in the speech. of inauguration which was presented on the internal bulletin board immediately after its inauguration. The visit is part of understanding the future management orientation. It is interpreted as an expression of the will to prioritize “win-win” with business partners.

Samsung’s position is that this move reflects President Lee’s management philosophy of “accompanying company” and that it is a willingness to highlight Samsung’s unique CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) activities.

DK, who led President Lee’s first step, is a partner company that has been supplying steel sheet processing products such as refrigerators to Samsung Electronics’ home appliance business for 28 years since 1994 and is also a small but strong representative company. in the area. Samsung Partner It is one of the representative partners who have grown together with Samsung, with sales growing 287 times in 28 years. In 1994, DK only had 750 million won in sales with 10 employees, but last year it had 773 employees and sales reached 215.2 billion won.

We warmly welcome President Lee Jae-yong’s first official external program, which he declared “win-win cooperation”.

The fact that President Lee has visited “partners” in the “provinces” is very suggestive. Expectations are rising that the young leader will change the past of Korean chaebol companies into the industrial society of the past, which has trampled the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises such as partner companies. This is also considered an essential element of competitiveness in the global market where solidarity and win-win are the main trends. I am inclined to hope that this Gwangju tour does not end with a show-style “event” endemic to our society.

Above all, I would like to express my special thanks for the symbolism of the visit to ‘Gwangju’, which was the frontier of modern economic history. Hopefully, the rise of President Lee represents a turning point of hope and possibility for local partners across the country, symbolized by DK.