Our endeavors to strengthen our competitiveness and marketing ability has continued amid the domestic economic recession, which resulted from rising crude oil prices and falling exchange rates last year, and we particularly focused our strength on R&D and marketing activities in a bid to make strategic areas such as digital cameras more competitive than ever.

Our philosophy honoring laws and business ethics, sustaining a clean organizational culture to ensure management transparency, respecting our customers, shareholders and employees, and complying with the business principle regarding environment, safety and health will further continue and develop in the coming days, too.

Over the past two years, Samsung Techwin has worked diligently to pave the way for manufacturing pollutant-free and environment-friendly products in cooperation with suppliers, thereby becoming a world-class business in environment management. Samsung Techwin¡¯s efforts focusing on technology development aimed at enhancing resource and energy efficiency, implementing a life cycle assessment and Eco-design so as to provide customers with more environment-friendly goods, as well as to increase our commitment to enhancing the social and national economy will continue.