The article presents a case study on the success of the Korean-based engineering company Samsung Engineering Co. Ltd. It mentions that the company has accumulated skills and expertise in plant engineering in the domestic petrochemical industry in the industrialization era in the 1970s. However, it says that the success of the firm was affected by the 1997 Asian currency crisis but recovered when it successfully completed the SABIC Butene-1 plant and became known to Middle Eastern customers.