And it wasn’t that many years ago the electronic stuff from Samsung was considered the cheapest junk you could buy! But my cheesy microwave still works, and I just got one of their tvs. But when they first hit the market here they were considered to be junk.
The wife and I went almost exclusively Samsung in our home. Our first plasma TV was a Samsung. Our fridge, oven, microwave, washer, and dryer are all Samsung.
IIRC, in the early 2000s, they brought on a huge R&D group that was eventual absorbed into them, and they've been making amazing products since.