Total sales of 201 companies of Hyeopseonghoe last year about 58 trillion won
Smart factory construction support for small and medium-sized companies

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the’Samsung Electronics Partners Association’. Members of Hyeopseonghoe are continuing their journey of’shared growth’ with Samsung Electronics, with sales increasing 25 times and the number of employees more than 6 times in 30 years.
On the 27th, Samsung Electronics released a video of the journey that has led the development of the Korean IT industry and the status of today in its’News Room’.
Under the theme of ’40 Years of Companion to the Best’, this video shows the achievements of localization of technology, the world’s No. 1 challenge, and win-win practices of the members of the Hyupsung Society, where Samsung Electronics has been together to become the world’s No. I am introducing.
The’Cooperative Association’ was established in 1981 by 39 primary partners for the purpose of mutual development through maintaining smooth cooperative relationships between Samsung Electronics and partner companies, exchanging information, and joint technology development. Currently, 201 companies are registered as members.
The members of the Hyupsung Society are ▲representing partner companies in discussions with Samsung Electronics for win-win activities, solving difficulties ▲’Partners’ competitiveness improvement activities’ such as seminars to share new technologies and new methods for 2nd and 3rd tier partners ▲Volunteer activities and scholarships for local communities We are conducting business, etc.
Together with Samsung Electronics, the members of the Hyupsung Association also made a quantum and qualitative leap forward, growing as a pillar of the Korean economy. They succeeded by challenging the localization of core technologies and introduced world-class products.
The total sales of 201 companies of Hyeopseonghoe last year amounted to about 57.900 trillion won, and the number of employees employed was about 283,000. Companies with more than 1 trillion won in sales also reach 9 locations including Dongwoo Finechem, SFA, MCNEX, Partron, and Daedeok Electronics. When comparing 1991 and 2019 of Hyeopseonghoe member companies, sales increased by more than 25 times and the number of employees employed increased by more than 6 times.
Daedeok Electronics, a PCB (printed circuit board) company, increased 121 times from 8.8 billion won in sales in 1980 to 1.72 trillion won in 2019, and its number of employees increased by 12 times from 280 to 3,500.
‘Iotechnics’ succeeded in localizing high-performance laser production equipment last year that depended on imports through joint research and development for 8 years with Samsung Electronics.
The’Laser Annealing’ equipment developed by Eotechnics is a technology that processes the surface by heating and cooling only a part of the wafer with a laser during the DRAM production process. It is the core equipment to solve the problem
Wonik IPS succeeded in localizing CVD equipment and core technologies used to manufacture semiconductor wafers with technical support from Samsung Electronics in 2018 as the 3D NAND flash market expanded. CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition) refers to a process in which a gaseous chemical component forms a thin film by a chemical reaction on a substrate.
‘Intops’, a mobile phone exterior injection company, has developed a new material plastic used in products such as’Galaxy A51 5G’ and’Galaxy A21S’ launched this year. By applying a new method, it can maintain the strength and gloss of tempered glass, and can express various colors, contributing to the launch of various colored smartphones.
Samsung Electronics is providing intensive support in three areas of’finance, technology, and manpower’ to strengthen the competitiveness of suppliers. In particular, it operates a win-win fund and water support fund worth 2.2 trillion won in order to stabilize the management of business partners.
In particular, about 380 billion won was paid as incentives from 2010 to the present to excellent semiconductor suppliers that achieved the goals of’productivity’ and’safety’.
Since 2015, 27,000 patents have been opened free of charge, and from 2013, the’Win-Win Cooperation Academy’ dedicated to education, recruitment, and consulting for suppliers has been established to provide systematic support. In order to resolve the difficulties of business partners suffering from Corona this year, we urgently provided funding and logistics support, and delivered quarantine supplies such as masks and hand sanitizers.
It is expanding the scope of win-win activities by supporting the construction of smart factories for all small and medium-sized companies that need support regardless of whether or not they do business with Samsung Electronics.
Daedeok Electronics CEO Kim Young-jae, who is the chairman of Hyeopseong-hoe, said, “Since the time the electronics industry was born, Samsung Electronics executives have emphasized to partner companies to go far together and create a strong electronics industry. Hyupseonghoe will also play its role so that we can go out.”
Kim Hyun-seok, CEO of Samsung Electronics, said, “Partners are Samsung Electronics’ most reliable partners. Thanks to this, Samsung Electronics has grown into a global company, and Korea has become an IT powerhouse,” he said. “I express my respect and gratitude to the executives and employees of partner companies.”
Meanwhile, Samsung Electronics said,’Go Together To the Future! Under the CSR vision of’Enabling People’, we are engaged in win-win activities and social contribution activities for youth education, such as win-win fund, smart factory, C Lab Outside, and Samsung Future Technology Promotion Project.
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