, founding chairman Byung-Chull Lee started a business in Daegu, Korea, focused primarily on trade export, selling dried Korean fish, vegetables, and fruit to Manchuria and Beijing. In little more than a decade, Samsung which means "three stars" in Korean would have its own flour mills and confectionery machines, its own manufacturing and sales operations, and. From these humble beginnings, Samsung would ultimately evolve to become the modern global corporation that still bears the same name today.