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When you hear the word “ammonia,” you might immediately associate it with a pungent odor. However, would you believe that it is also a life-giving commodity hidden behind our lives? As a basic raw material for all nitrogen fertilizers, which are in turn among the most frequently used in the world, ammonia is key to […]

Fu Bao, the popular baby panda at Everland, South Korea’s largest theme park operated by Samsung C&T Resort Group, has already passed 300 days of age and is racing towards her first birthday next month. Weighing a fraction under 200 grams when she was born, she has already grown to a little over a healthy […]

In the last 18 months, regulations on social distancing and self-isolation have been enforced in many countries to control and prevent the spread of COVID-19. This has naturally led to an increase in the time that people spend in their homes. While in the past, one’s home was merely considered a place for living or […]

There is a large number of charities and foundations in the world that help people by funding necessary eye surgeries, so it is encouraging to see a company roll up its sleeves and work to give the precious gift of sight to those who need it. Kim Na-yeon, a seven-year-old girl, is one of 379 […]

If there is one factor that repeatedly comes up in business success stories, it is the importance of building solid relationships. In this latest installment of our Passion & Expertise series, we see how being a “people person” has benefited Professional Alexey Provalov, head of the Steel team at the Moscow office of Samsung C&T […]

When building highways, railways, subways, or other civil engineering projects, geotechnical engineers are indispensable. Seok Jeong-woo is one such geotechnical engineer for Samsung C&T’s Engineering & Construction (E&C) Group with 19 years of work experience both in- and outside Korea. In this article, Seok shares some of the things he has experienced and learned while […]

In a recent article on how to pick clothes that will help one stay cool in the summer heat, Popular Science magazine reminded us that the best thing to wear is “loose-fitting clothing made of fabric that air can easily pass through” and that linen is one of those materials that are good to wear. Linen is […]

Did you know that there are hundreds of species of rose and tens of thousands of cultivars? The old poem has it that roses are red, and violets are blue, but nowadays growers are able to breed roses in almost every color and hue. Each year in May, South Korea’s premiere theme park Everland, run […]

The last year may stand out as extraordinary for all of us, but Samsung C&T has been able to deal with these unprecedented circumstances based on the resilience it has built up since 1938. The company’s remarkable history has seen it grow from its beginnings as a Korean trading outfit to an ever-expanding global organization […]

PT. Gandaerah Hendana and PT. Inecda, subsidiaries of Samsung C&T Trading & Investment Group that operate palm plantations in Indonesia, have been certified to the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) standard. The two palm plantations cover 19,700 hectares on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, with the capacity to produce 90,000 tons of crude palm oil (CPO) […]