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- In 2025, Samsung C&T enabled next-generation infrastructure, strengthened resilience across energy and materials markets, expanded fashion as a form of cultural expression, and transformed stories into immersive experiences
- This article brings together the key themes that defined the year across Samsung C&T’s four business groups
In the past year, Samsung C&T’s activities across its businesses pointed to a set of shared priorities. From how infrastructure was planned and delivered, to how markets were navigated, cultures expressed, and experiences created, the year showed how different parts of the company responded to a changing environment in distinct but connected ways.
Engineering and Construction focused on enabling large-scale, future-ready infrastructure shaped by digitalization and AI. Trading and Investment centered on strengthening resilience across energy and materials markets facing ongoing uncertainty. Fashion positioned design as a means of cultural expression beyond borders, while Resort translated stories into immersive, experience-led worlds that connected with audiences at scale.
Together, these perspectives frame the stories that follow, each reflecting a different part of how 2025 unfolded at Samsung C&T.
Engineering and Construction
Enabling the Infrastructure of Tomorrow
In 2025, Samsung C&T Engineering & Construction (E&C) Group focused on enabling the infrastructure required for an increasingly digital and AI-driven world, as demand for high-performance computing and large-scale data centers continued to accelerate. The Group addressed the growing complexity of data center development by focusing on systems that support scale, performance, and energy efficiency, responding to the limits of conventional infrastructure approaches.
Across the year, this meant advancing solutions that support higher-density computing environments, including next-generation cooling technologies, while also strengthening integrated capabilities across the entire data center lifecycle. From early-stage investment and feasibility assessment to design, construction, and operational planning, the E&C Group demonstrated how an integrated, end-to-end approach supports the reliable delivery of future-ready digital infrastructure.
Trading and Investment
Strengthening Resilience Across Energy and Materials
Throughout 2025, the Trading and Investment (T&I) Group operated at the intersection of volatility and continuity, focusing on how energy and materials markets can remain functional as demand patterns shift. Looking beyond individual projects, the Group’s activities reflected the importance of systems that absorb disruption while maintaining supply across essential sectors.
From addressing how battery energy storage supports the integration of renewable power by smoothing variability and supporting grid operations, to securing access to critical materials that underpin both agricultural supply chains and emerging electrification needs, T&I Group highlighted the importance of market access, supply coordination, and long-term availability in sustaining essential systems.
Fashion
Defining Cultural Identity Through Design
From introducing Korean casual fashion to new markets through 8 Seconds’ first overseas store in Manila, to exploring architectural form and modern femininity through KUHO’s capsule collaboration with Francesco Fucci, Fashion positioned design as a form of cultural expression in 2025.
Across the year, the Group showed how fashion can move beyond retail expansion or seasonal collections to communicate identity, creativity, and lifestyle. Whether through connecting K-fashion with new audiences in Southeast Asia or translating design concepts inspired by art and architecture into refined silhouettes, these efforts highlighted how Fashion continues to express culture through design, collaboration, and storytelling.
Resort
Creating Immersive Worlds Through Storytelling
In 2025, Samsung C&T’s Resort Group showed how storytelling can be transformed into immersive worlds that evolve over time. Through large-scale IP collaborations such as Everland’s summer partnership with One Piece, K-Pop Demon Hunters, and The Wizard of Oz, the Group demonstrated how themed design, spatial planning, and operations come together to create destination-level experiences across Everland and Caribbean Bay.
At the same time, long-form storytelling centered on the Bao Family highlighted a more intimate approach, following the panda twins’ growth from a shared birthday celebration to their transition into independent life at the new Panda Second House. Together, these stories reflected how the Resort Group combines creativity, care, and thoughtful design to create experiences that resonate emotionally while continuously engaging visitors across seasons and generations.
Looking Back at 2025
As 2025 comes to a close, these stories offer a snapshot of the year across Samsung C&T — from how infrastructure and markets continued to evolve, to how design, culture, and storytelling created meaningful connections. Each piece reflected a different perspective, but together they captured how the year took shape across our business.
Thank you for following along and spending time with our stories throughout 2025. We look forward to continuing the conversation and sharing more moments, ideas, and experiences with you in the year ahead.
