{"id":7802,"date":"2025-03-25T02:41:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T02:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo5.dedicatedhost247.com\/zexo\/samsung-electronics-co-ceo-han-jong-hee-63-passes-away-due-to-heart-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T02:41:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T02:41:50","slug":"samsung-electronics-co-ceo-han-jong-hee-63-passes-away-due-to-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo5.dedicatedhost247.com\/zexo\/samsung-electronics-co-ceo-han-jong-hee-63-passes-away-due-to-heart-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Electronics co-CEO Han Jong-hee, 63, passes away due to heart attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\"><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-108120651\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>Han Jong-hee, co-chief executive officer of Samsung Electronics Co., at the company&#8217;s annual general meeting at the Suwon Convention Center in Suwon, South Korea, on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>South Korea&#8217;s <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/SSNLF\/\">Samsung Electronics<\/a><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"\/><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> said Tuesday that its co-CEO Han Jong-hee, 63, passed away due to a heart attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He headed Samsung&#8217;s digital appliances division, as well as its device experience unit, which includes mobile phones and home appliances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Han joined Samsung in 1988, rising through the ranks over the years and becoming the head of the product research and development team at the company&#8217;s visual display division in 2011. He was appointed CEO in 2022, according to the company website.<\/p>\n<p>The company in a statement credited Han with helping Samsung become a global leader in TV business and for contributing to the company&#8217;s growth as an executive during a challenging business environment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our deepest condolences are with his family and loved ones during this difficult time,&#8221; Samsung said.<\/p>\n<p>Han, one of four executive directors on Samsung&#8217;s board, had hosted the company&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/03\/19\/samsung-ceo-says-company-will-pursue-deals-as-it-struggles-for-growth.html\">annual general shareholders meeting<\/a> in Suwon, South Korea, just one week ago, fielding questions about the firm&#8217;s poor stock performance.<\/p>\n<p>The company said Jun Young-hyun\u2014 who was appointed as co-CEO in November last year\u2014 will become the sole CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung last year announced changes in the leadership of its memory and foundry chip divisions amid intense competition in the semiconductor space, appointing Jun as co-CEO and head of the memory chip arm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Han Jong-hee, co-chief executive officer of Samsung Electronics Co., at the company&#8217;s annual general meeting at the Suwon Convention Center in Suwon, South Korea, on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.\u00a0 Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images South Korea&#8217;s Samsung Electronics said Tuesday that its co-CEO Han Jong-hee, 63, passed away due to a heart attack.\u00a0 He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1510,1036,199,11759,1421,11758,11760,632,11761,1817,5157,5155,304],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108120651-1742865383354-gettyimages-2205254040-SKOREA_SAMSUNG.jpeg?v=1742865400&w=1920&h=1080","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo5.dedicatedhost247.com\/zexo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo5.dedicatedhost247.com\/zexo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo5.dedicatedhost247.com\/zexo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo5.dedicatedhost247.com\/zexo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo5.dedicatedhost247.com\/zexo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo5.dedicatedhost247.com\/zexo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo5.dedicatedhost247.com\/zexo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo5.dedicatedhost247.com\/zexo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo5.dedicatedhost247.com\/zexo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo5.dedicatedhost247.com\/zexo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}