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Samsung Electronics co-PDG Han Jong-Hee died on Tuesday when he was treated for cardiac arrest, said the company.
He was 63 years old.
The newly appointed CO-PDG Jun Young Hyun will take over and assume single responsibility, said Samsung in a regulatory file. Jun had just been appointed CO-PDG last week after managing the company’s semiconductor division.
Han was also the head of the company’s experience division (DX), joined Samsung in 1988 and spent almost 40 years to direct Samsung television activities. As head of the DX division and the activity of digital devices, he was recognized for helping the company develop despite the difficult commercial environment.
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Han Jong-Hee, Managing Director and Head of Visual Affairs at Samsung Electronics Co., died on Tuesday. (Lauren Justice / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
He began his career at Samsung as the product manager of the research and development team for the visual display sector in 2011.
In 2022, he was appointed CEO of one of the world’s largest producers in electronic devices. He was simultaneously responsible for the division of electronic devices and mobile devices of the company.
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Han Jong-Hee joined Samsung in 1988. (Photo by Jung Yeon-I / AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
The company specializes in the manufacture of a wide variety of consumer and industrial electronics and has two CEOs supervising separate divisions.
However, he struggled to compete with rivals on the market for artificial intelligence chips. He also had trouble competing with Rival Apple in the production of smartphones.
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At the shareholder meeting that Han chaired last week, he told investors that 2025 would be a difficult year, and Samsung would respond flexibly to President Donald Trump’s prices with his global supply chain and his manufacturing imprints.
He and other leaders were burned by shareholders at the meeting after the company’s failure to set up an AI boom made one of the least efficient technological actions of last year.
In semiconductors, Samsung is lagging behind Sk Hynix in so-called bandwidth memory chips on which Nvidia and others count for AI graphic processing units.
“First and foremost, I sincerely apologize for the performance of recent actions does not meet your expectations. During the last year, our company has not adequately met the IA semiconductor market in rapid development,” said Han.
Reuters contributed to this report.
