BloombergSamsung Electronics Co has appointed Roh Tae-moon the head of its smartphone division, tasking a veteran executive with oversight of the world’s largest mobile devices business. Roh, a two-decade veteran of Samsung, is regarded internally as an engineering maven who is meticulous about phone features. Its devices accounted for 54 percent of the global 5G smartphone market as of November last year, after it shipped more than 6.7 million Galaxy 5G smartphones last year, the company has said. Separately, Huawei last week said that it shipped more than 6.9 million 5G phones last year. Away from smartphones, the chiefs of three key Samsung divisions — semiconductors, consumer appliances and electronics and IT services — remained the same.
