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Samsung Electronics Headquarters & offices · Suwon, South Korea
Samsung Electronics · Suwon, South Korea
Samsung's headquarters is a 390-acre “Digital City” in Suwon with free meals, on-site clinics, daycare, a swimming pool — and its own heliport.
The campus in Suwon, the towers in Seoul and the garden-filled chip HQ in San Jose, then the benefits, the people and the business. Every number from Samsung's own reports, newsroom and careers site, or the architects' project pages.
- 390 acresSamsung Digital City, Suwon (2014)
- 13in-house daycare centers in Korea, 2025
- 2.5%leaving rate in Korea, 2025
- 259,149employees worldwide, 2025
Sources: Samsung Newsroom “20 Things You Didn't Know about Samsung's Headquarters in Suwon” (2014) · Samsung Electronics Sustainability Report 2026 · samsung.com Sustainability “Facts & Figures” (2025)
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THE HEADQUARTERS · SAMSUNG DIGITAL CITY · SUWON
A campus the size of a town: 390 acres, 35,000 people, 72,000 free meals a day
Samsung Digital City, about 13 miles south of Seoul, is where Galaxy phones are developed and tested. In 2014 Samsung counted almost 35,000 employees there, 4 landmark office towers up to 38 floors, 131 smaller buildings with labs, offices and sports facilities, and a guesthouse for visiting researchers. Healthcare is free at on-site clinics (from flu shots to dental care and acupuncture), 500 shuttle buses run to 103 destinations, and the campus has a 30 ft climbing wall, ten basketball courts, three soccer fields, two baseball diamonds and a swimming pool. The Samsung Innovation Museum, a five-storey, 10,950 m² hall on electronics history, opened on the campus in 2014.
- 390 acres (≈ 158 ha)
- ~35,000 people (2014)
- 4 towers, up to 38 floors
- 131 smaller buildings
- 72,000 free meals a day
- 650+ employee clubs
Facts: Samsung Newsroom “20 Things You Didn't Know about Samsung's Headquarters in Suwon” (Sept 29, 2014) · “Grand Opening of Samsung Innovation Museum” (Apr 21, 2014). Figures are as of 2014.
Suwon, Seoul and San Jose
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Samsung Digital City (HQ) | 129 Samsung-ro, Yeongtong-gu (Maetan-dong), Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea |
| Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology | 130 Samsung-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do 16678, South Korea |
| Seocho Office Building | 11 Seocho-daero 74-gil, Seocho-gu, Seoul 06620, South Korea |
| Device Solutions America (U.S. chip HQ) | 3655 North First Street, San Jose, California 95134, USA |
Source: samsung.com Korea site footer (head office address) · semiconductor.samsung.com Locations and SAFE Forum 2026 venue page · See them on the map ↓
Source: Samsung Newsroom (2014) · KPF project page “Samsung Seocho” · NBBJ project page “Samsung America Headquarters” · Permasteelisa project page
Office tour videos
Benefits (Korea)
Breakfast, lunch and dinner are free in the cafeterias, with Korean and international menus. Digital City alone served 72,000 free meals a day in 2014.
In-house daycare centers in Korea with room for 3,157 children (2025). Samsung also helps pay children's school tuition, from kindergarten to university.
Employees on parental leave in 2025; 99.4% of women and 98.3% of men came back afterwards. A “reboarding” program helps people return.
Paid fertility treatment leave. Pregnant employees may ask for shorter hours for the whole pregnancy.
Paid partner's leave, or 3 paid days of bereavement leave after a partner's miscarriage or stillbirth.
Annual medical exams for employees and their spouses, on-campus clinics, and part of medical costs for employees and immediate family reimbursed.
Employees who reach the required monthly hours may use the Friday of pay week for self-development and rest.
Long-serving employees get extra vacation time; a travel mall offers discounts at resorts and water parks.
Source: samsung.com Korea careers “Working at Samsung” · Samsung Electronics Sustainability Report 2026 (Work-life Balance; in-house daycare data) · samsung.com “Facts & Figures” (2025) · Samsung Newsroom (2014).
Why people stay: what Samsung itself says
Samsung's “retirement rate” for its 124,564 employees in Korea. Worldwide it was 8.6%, and 14.2% outside Korea.
₩7,404 billion on welfare benefits in Korea and abroad, up from ₩6,473 billion in 2023.
A flexible working-hours system, remote work on a pre-planned schedule, and 8 flexible workplaces in Korea, including Seocho, Digital City and the Future Technology Campus.
Samsung Institute of Technology began in 1989 as an in-house technical school and became an accredited university in 2001 (graduates as of Feb 2026).
Average training hours per employee outside Korea in 2025; 59.6 hours in Korea. External MBA and visiting-researcher programs are open to all employees.
From photography to paragliding (2014), plus concerts and Family Day events on campus. 34 in-house counseling and mental health centers in Korea (2025).
Source: samsung.com “Facts & Figures” (2025) · Samsung Electronics Sustainability Report 2026 · Samsung Newsroom (2014) · samsung.com Korea careers
Who works here
employees in Korea (134,585 abroad)
of managers are women
employees with disabilities in Korea (2.1%)
employees in Asia outside Korea
Source: samsung.com Sustainability “Facts & Figures” (2025). Shares calculated by eciffo.
Compare Samsung Electronics with: Apple · Panasonic · NEC
Office history: from Suwon to Seoul and back to Suwon
- 1969 Samsung Electronics is born
Seven promoters, including founding chairman Byung-Chull Lee, met on December 30, 1968; Samsung Electronics was founded on January 13, 1969, in Suwon.
Source: Samsung Newsroom “The History of Samsung Electronics (1)” · Wikipedia (place)
Samsung Electronics' Suwon complex, c. 1969–70 · © Samsung Electronics (Samsung Newsroom) - 1980 The Suwon R&D Center
Established in December 1979 and opened in April 1980, the Suwon R&D Center took Samsung into semiconductors, telecoms and new technologies — the start of research on the Suwon site.
Source: Samsung Newsroom “History of Samsung Electronics (5)”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - Until 2008 Head office on Taepyeong-ro, downtown Seoul
Before 2008, Samsung Electronics' headquarters offices were on Taepyeong-ro in central Seoul, while research and production grew in Suwon.
Source: Samsung Newsroom “History of Samsung (23)”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2008 Samsung Seocho, Gangnam — towers by KPF
The headquarters moved from Taepyeong-ro to the Seocho district, and Samsung opened its brand showroom Samsung d’light there. KPF, with Samoo, designed the 239,000 m² (2,600,000 sq ft) group of towers for Samsung Electronics, Samsung C&T and Samsung Life Insurance, with a public plaza.
Source: Samsung Newsroom “History of Samsung (23)” · KPF project page
Samsung Seocho, Seoul · Oskar Alexanderson / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2014 Digital City: “Samsung's Headquarters in Suwon”
Samsung's newsroom described Samsung Digital City as its headquarters: 390 acres, almost 35,000 employees. The Samsung Innovation Museum opened on the campus in April.
Source: Samsung Newsroom (Sept 29 and Apr 21, 2014)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2015 A Silicon Valley headquarters for chips
In San Jose, Samsung's U.S. semiconductor headquarters by NBBJ was completed: 1.1 million sq ft over 10 storeys, with gardens stacked so no one is more than one floor from green space.
Source: NBBJ project page · Permasteelisa project page
San Jose, 2015 · Photo: © NBBJ - Today Samsung Digital City, Suwon
Samsung marked its 50th anniversary in 2019 at “Samsung Digital City, the Company’s headquarters in Suwon”. The registered head office is 129 Samsung-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon; the Seocho Office Building is listed among its off-site flexible workplaces.
Source: Samsung Newsroom (Nov 1, 2019) · samsung.com footer · Sustainability Report 2026
Suwon · hyolee2 / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Map: how the headquarters moved
Samsung Electronics was founded in Suwon, ran its head office from Taepyeong-ro and then Seocho in Seoul, and today names Digital City in Suwon — about 30 km south of Seocho — as its headquarters.
- 1 · 1969Suwon — Founded; research and production grow on the Suwon site
- 2 · Until 2008Taepyeong-ro, Seoul — Head office in downtown Seoul
- 3 · 2008Samsung Seocho, Seoul — 11 Seocho-daero 74-gil — KPF towers
- 4 · TodaySamsung Digital City, Suwon — 129 Samsung-ro, Yeongtong-gu — headquarters
Addresses: Samsung Newsroom · samsung.com footer · semiconductor.samsung.com. Suwon and Taepyeong-ro locations approximate (street-level for Taepyeong-ro not published by Samsung).
What Samsung Electronics does
Samsung Electronics makes phones, TVs and home appliances (DX), memory and logic chips (DS), displays (Samsung Display) and car and audio electronics (Harman).
Four businesses: DX (Device eXperience), DS (Device Solutions), SDC (Samsung Display) and Harman.
Where the money came from · sales by business, 2025
Source: samsung.com Sustainability “Facts & Figures” (2025). Business figures include sales between businesses, so they add up to more than the total.
Source: samsung.com Sustainability “Facts & Figures” (2025) · per-employee figure calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
₩243.8T → ₩333.6T
309,630 → 259,149
Calendar years, consolidated (K-IFRS), trillion won. Sales: samsung.com IR “Financial Highlights”. Employees: Samsung Electronics Sustainability Reports 2019, 2022, 2023 and samsung.com “Facts & Figures” (2023–2025). Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Co-CEO. Head of the Device eXperience (DX) Division — phones, TVs, appliances — and of the Mobile eXperience (MX) Business.
Vice Chairman and co-CEO. Head of the Device Solutions (DS) Division (chips) and of the Memory Business.
Vice Chairman and CEO, head of the merged SET (later DX) Division.
CEO and head of the Device Solutions (DS) Division.
Three division CEOs in 2019: DS (chips), CE (consumer electronics) and IM (IT & mobile).
Founded on January 13, 1969, with founding chairman Byung-Chull Lee. Jay Y. Lee has been Executive Chairman since October 27, 2022.
Source: Samsung Newsroom leadership announcements (Dec 7, 2021; Nov 27, 2024; Nov 21, 2025) · “Jay Y. Lee Appointed Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman” (2022) · 50th anniversary release (2019) · samsung.com IR Board of Directors
Samsung Electronics: questions people ask
Where is Samsung Electronics' headquarters?
At Samsung Digital City, 129 Samsung-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea — about 13 miles south of Seoul.
Source: samsung.com footer · Samsung Newsroom (2014, 2019)
What is Samsung Digital City?
Samsung's Suwon campus: 390 acres with almost 35,000 employees, 4 office towers up to 38 floors and 131 smaller buildings (2014). It has clinics, sports fields, a swimming pool, a heliport and the Samsung Innovation Museum.
Source: Samsung Newsroom (2014)
Wasn't Samsung's headquarters in Seoul?
Its head office was on Taepyeong-ro in downtown Seoul until 2008, when it moved to the Seocho towers in Gangnam. Samsung now names Digital City in Suwon as its headquarters, and lists the Seocho Office Building among its off-site flexible workplaces.
Source: Samsung Newsroom History (23) and 50th anniversary release · Sustainability Report 2026
Who designed Samsung's buildings in Seoul and San Jose?
Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), with Samoo as associate architect, designed Samsung Seocho in Seoul. NBBJ designed Samsung's U.S. semiconductor headquarters in San Jose.
Source: KPF · NBBJ project pages
How big is Samsung's San Jose headquarters?
About 1.1 million sq ft (≈ 102,000 m²) over 10 storeys, completed in 2015, with gardens placed so that every employee is no more than one floor from green space. It is at 3655 North First Street.
Source: NBBJ · Permasteelisa project pages · semiconductor.samsung.com
What benefits does Samsung offer in Korea?
Three free meals a day, free annual check-ups for employees and spouses, on-campus clinics, in-house daycare, help with children's tuition from kindergarten to university, 5 paid days of fertility treatment leave and 20 paid days of partner's leave.
Source: samsung.com Korea careers · Sustainability Report 2026
Does Samsung have childcare for employees?
Yes. Samsung ran 13 in-house daycare centers in Korea in 2025 with room for 3,157 children. In 2014 more than 150 teachers looked after 900 children at Digital City alone.
Source: Sustainability Report 2026 · Samsung Newsroom (2014)
Does Samsung allow flexible or remote work?
Samsung says it uses a flexible working-hours system, remote work on a pre-planned schedule, and 8 flexible workplaces in Korea. Employees who meet monthly hours may use the Friday of pay week for self-development.
Source: Sustainability Report 2026
How many people work at Samsung Electronics?
259,149 at the end of 2025: 124,564 in Korea and 134,585 abroad. The leaving rate was 2.5% in Korea and 8.6% worldwide.
Source: samsung.com Sustainability “Facts & Figures”
Who runs Samsung Electronics?
Two co-CEOs: Vice Chairman Young Hyun Jun (chips, DS Division) and Tae-Moon (TM) Roh (devices, DX Division). Jay Y. Lee is Executive Chairman.
Source: Samsung Newsroom (Nov 21, 2025; Oct 27, 2022)
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