Newsweek, in its Dec. 2004-Feb.2005 Special Edition, featured LG Electronics CEO Kim, Ssang Soo (S.S. Kim) as a leader in the Technology Section. Newsweek also noted to keep an eye on LG and its field commander in 2005.
The magazine indicated LGE as the world’s fastest-growing mobile-phone market and intensively highlighted LGE's global business operations, management innovation cases, and S. S. Kim's management philosophy.