 Samsung was founded as a grocery trading store? It was on March 1, 1938, when Lee Byung-chul started his business in Taegu, Korea, trading noodles and other goods produced in and around the city and exporting them to China and its provinces. Who would have imagined that it would become the technological giant that it is today? Many times, it's not how we started, but what we become. And now you know.