Gallery: Samsung Employees Vacation and Get Hitched Without Ever Leaving Work

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    Many chaebols in South Korea have their own housing complexes that function as self-contained villages, with supermarkets and community centers within. Samsung has several, including this one near Sungkyunkwan university and Digital City in Suwon. Its most luxurious housing complex is the Raemian in Seoul. “Apart from \[the Samsung logo\], it’s no different than any other housing complex,” he says.
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    Young fans watch the Samsung Lions play at the baseball stadium in Daegu. Baseball is wildly popular in South Korea and Samsung’s team is the best in the country.
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    A memorial to Samsung stands in Daegu where Lee Byung-chul first opened a small import-export business called Samsung Sanghoe in 1938. Samsung is now South Korea’s biggest company.
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    A girl poses for a portrait at Everland amusement park. Since opening in 1976, the resort claims 200 million people have visited.
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    Swimmers play at Carribean Bay, the aquatic section of Everland amusement park.
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    Samsung is among several companies including Baskin Robbins, Dunkin Donuts, and Korean Air who invite children to try out adult jobs at the edutainment amusement park Kidzania in Seoul. Samsung in particular lets children take a stab at building apps and fixing air conditioning units.
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    The Gangnam district of Seoul is home to three gigantic buildings that house the headquarters of Samsung Electronics, Samsung C&T, and Samsung Life Insurance.
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    Samsung employees can hold inexpensive wedding ceremonies on the fifth floor of the Samsung Electronics tower in Ganham, Seoul. Each ceremony is perfectly scripted and lasts about 45 minutes.
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    Samsung’s S-1 company provides security equipment like this CCTV camera.
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    Inside a Samsung residential complex, everything is there: kindergarden, convenient stores, etc.
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    A crowded ashtray guards the entrance to Digital City, the research and development center for Samsung Electronics in Suwon.
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    Ewha Womans University, one of the most prestigious universities in Korea. Samsung built the main – and most famous – building of the campus. Seoul, South Korea.
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    Students wait for the start of their graduation ceremony at Sungkyunkwan University. The school was founded in 1398, and Samsung purchased it in 1996. The company hires many of its graduates.
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    Senior citizens gather at a community center for the elderly at a Samsung housing complex in Seoul.
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