Samsung Electronics Hosts Annual Suhoor in Jeddah

With presence of the Saudi Olympic Torch Bearers

Mobilk - Samsung Electronics, global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, conducted yesterday their annual Suhoor function at Campioni sports café in Jeddah with the presence of various members of the press. This event comes in line with the launching of the Olympic Games 2012 in London, whereby Samsung Electronics is a proud worldwide sponsor of the games and was pleased to welcome Dr. Faisal Al Qahtani from King Abdulaziz University and Sports Journalist Mounzer Batati to the Suhoor and share their extraordinary experience during the Torch Relay last month. The Olympic Games were projected live during the event, with special highlight on Samsung’s largest TV screen that has arrived to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and holds a screen size of 75 inches. At the end of the function, Mr. Jae Cheon Park handed valuable prizes from the raffle draw to announced winners. 

 

Mr. Jae Cheon Park, General Manager of Samsung Electronics, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia expressed the importance of the Kingdom’s participation in the London Olympics and stated that, “Samsung Electronics Saudi Arabia is proud of the continuous social events that it conducts in order to maintain a strong relationship between media and management, to exchange and track the new happenings within our markets.” Mr. Park continued, “This year, the Holy Month of Ramadan coincided with the start of the Olympic Games 2012, over 10,000 competing athletes from 204 nations worldwide and more than 1 billion viewers of the opening ceremony- and this is where we all come together under one roof to observe the spiritual season of the Holy Month in addition to viewing the most exciting games in history.”

 

After being nominated by Samsung Saudi Arabia and selected by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, 9 participants from the Kingdom took part at the Torch Relay last month in London and journeyed across the UK for 70 days, side by side with prominent world renowned individuals such as; England’s David Beckham, British TV star Jamie Oliver, Ivory Coast team player and Chelsea’s Didier Drogba and writer Vladimir Tolstoy. 

 

The participating athletes from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are competing in equestrian, weightlifting, athletics, judo and shooting category games of the 2012 Olympics being held in London.