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Media Network continues to be the number one
television manufacturer in the world, while the
Digital Appliance Network is on the verge of taking
its outstanding success in the domestic market to the
rest of the world.
Last year was also good for the financial
fundamentals of our company. We paid our
shareholders record dividends of 912.7 billion won
(734 million dollars) and bought back 1.5 trillion
won worth of stock, the most of any Korean
company. And our net debt/equity ratio reached
negative 24% by the fourth quarter. For all these
reasons, BusinessWeek recognized us as the number
one InformationTechnology company in the world
in its annual Info Tech 100 ratings. BusinessWeek
(and Interbrand) also took note of our new strength
as a global brand this year, ranking us 34th (with 8.3
billion dollars) in overall brand equity—an increase
of over 30% in a single year up from the previous
year’s rank of 42 (6.4 billion dollars).
While such recognition is helpful, we could not
have achieved this degree of success without the
deep changes we made through our efforts to
become a “Digital- E Company.” There are two
parts to being a “Digital- E Company,” and the first
is clearly about being “Digital,” producing not just
2002
AT A GLANCE
JANUARY
21 SEC introduces mobile
phones with high-definition
TFT-LCD color screens.
FEBRUARY
22 SEC begins mass
production of 19-inch TFT-
LCD PC monitors.
26 SEC begins mass
production of 256Mb DRAMs
on a 12-inch wafer.
MARCH
19 SEC receives the first
verification of 512Mb DDR
DRAMs from Intel.
28 SEC develops the first
controller integrated circuits
for STN LCDs.
APRIL
12 SEC develops new high-
performance CPUs for PDAs.
JUNE
05 SEC develops the world’s
first 70nm chip design
process.
16
BusinessWeek
ranks SEC
the world’s number one Info-
Tech company in its annual
Info Tech 100.