| Lee Young-hee, president of Samsung Electronics. Provided by Samsung Electronics |
In the Samsung Electronics promotion announced on the 5th, the first female president was born.
Samsung Electronics announced on the same day that Vice President Lee Young-hee, head of the global marketing center for the DX division, was promoted to head of the global marketing office for the DX division. She is a person who has been strongly considered as the first female president of Samsung Electronics ahead of her promotion this time.
President Lee, a marketing expert from Unilever and L’Oreal, was appointed as an executive in charge of marketing for Samsung Electronics in 2007. After being promoted to vice president in 2012, he served as vice president for 10 years.
Meanwhile, this personnel reshuffle was carried out on a scale of 9 people, including the promotion of a total of 7 presidents, including President Lee, and the change of commissioned duties for 2 people. Samsung Electronics also explained that it had promoted Kim Woo-joon, head of the strategic marketing team of Samsung Electronics’ DX division’s network division, to president and boldly appointed him as the head of the business division.
Instead, the existing two-member CEO system of ‘Han Jong-hee-Kyung Gye-hyun’ was maintained to promote management stability in an uncertain internal and external environment.
Reporter Park Joon-hee vinkey@munhwa.com