How did a company that started in 1938 selling dried fish and noodles end up making the memory chips inside the world's machines?

In the Season 1 premiere of The Story Real Korea, we trace Samsung's wild journey — from a 40-person trading shop in Daegu, through war and reinvention, to an almost reckless bet on semiconductors that no one thought could work. Along the way: the meaning hidden in the name "three stars," the chairman who demanded his people "change everything except your wife and children," and the day Samsung set fire to 150,000 of its own phones to make a point about quality.

It's a story of humble beginnings, impossible comebacks, and the audacity that turned a Korean market stall into a global giant.

In this episode: • The fish-and-noodle shop that became an empire • Rebuilding from the ashes of the Korean War •  ...