SEOUL-- Samsung Electronics Co. further expanded its dominance in the domestic smartphone market in the first quarter of the year on the back of robust sales of the Galaxy S and A series, a report showed Wednesday.

Samsung had a share of 67 percent in the South Korean smartphone market in the January-March period, up 9 percentage points from a quarter earlier, according to data from market researcher Counterpoint Research.

Its first-quarter market share was also 3 percentage points larger than a year earlier.

Samsung was followed by Apple Inc. with 22 percent and LG Electronics Inc. with 10 percent in the first quarter.

Apple and LG's market share declined 9 percentage points and 1 percentage point quarter-on-quarter, respectively.

Source: Yonhap News Agency