Samsung and Alibaba Thriving as Japan Lags Behind Chinese and Korean Companies on the Champs-Élysées
Charles de Gaulle Square, where everyone sets up their cameras in unison and looks up at the 50-meter-high Arc de Triomphe. From there, they walk down the Champs-Elysées, feeling the breeze as they make their way to Place de la Concorde. As this reporter was walking along this street, which most tourists visiting Paris pass by, she came across a pop-up store of Samsung, a leading Korean technology company.

This is the Samsung Olympic Experience Store. This is the Samsung Olympic Experience Store, which is open only during the Olympics, and is a facility where Samsung promotes its new products and products in collaboration with the Olympics to tourists and athletes, and allows them to experience them first hand. The Concorde Square at the end of the day is also the venue for BMX and skateboarding, which attracts many visitors every day.
It makes me proud as a Korean to see the products of our country’s leading manufacturers being picked up at this place that attracts the attention of the world. It makes me realize that Korea’s technology is the best in the world,” said a Korean journalist who visited the pop-up store.
Samsung is a worldwide partner of the Olympics, and the pop-up store plays an important role in showing solidarity with the Olympics.
Walking further toward Place de la Concorde, we came across a pop-up store of Tmall, an e-commerce site operated by Alibaba, one of China’s leading technology companies.