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SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics (005930.KS<\/span>) said on Saturday that one coronavirus case had been confirmed at its mobile device factory complex in the southeastern city of Gumi, causing a shutdown of its entire facility there until Monday morning. <\/p>\n Samsung Electronics, the world\u2019s top smartphone maker, said the floor where the infected employee worked would be shut down until the morning of Feb. 25. <\/p>\n \u201cThe company has placed colleagues who came in contact with the infected employee in self-quarantine and taken steps to have them tested for possible infection,\u201d Samsung said in a news release. <\/p>\n Samsung\u2019s factory in Gumi accounts for a small portion of its total smartphone production, and it makes high-end phones, mostly for the domestic market. Samsung produces most of its smartphones in Vietnam and India. <\/p>\n Gumi is close to the city of Daegu, home to a church at the center of South Korea\u2019s largest coronavirus outbreak. <\/p>\n South Korea said on Saturday that the number of people infected with the coronavirus in the country had more than doubled to 433. <\/p>\n Samsung said production at its chip and display factories in other parts of South Korea would not be affected. <\/p>\n