Samsung Rising

It was the question of the day. Rumors were spreading throughout South Korea that Samsung was attempting to suppress news of his ...

that was sure to stir up terrible PR? Samsung argued that this was an attempt to consolidate business units, but it was ultimate ...

was on. There were forty-four days until the vote. Jay Lee was having breakfast with JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon when he learned a ...

“The move is necessary,” the company said in a statement, “to protect the company and shareholders from overseas hedge funds tha ...

via text message from South Korea’s spy agency. Such practices are not unusual in South Korea, where government and corporations ...

Seven days before the vote. South Korea is home to the third-largest pension fund in the world, the National Pension Service (NP ...

up investing in Samsung BioLogics, one of Samsung’s hot new businesses. After hours of deliberations, the panel cast its vote in ...

At 3:00 P.M., a rowdy mob of shareholders burst into the lobby of the National Pension Service on rumors that it had voted to su ...

conservative protest tents at Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Square. “The future of our nation depends on Samsung. Please understand!” expl ...

needed. And many of those votes, many concluded, probably came from the National Pension Service, which had yet to reveal its vo ...

as a protest took place outside while we dined on spicy chilled noodles, pumpkin, and salad. It had taken me months to get the i ...

My Kingdom for a Horse “THE PRESIDENT WOULD LIKE to see you.” It was September 15, 2014, ten months before Samsung pushed throug ...

the Blue House. But something seemed off at the meeting. The president’s aide scribbled a note, according to evidence later reve ...

bought an $830,000 racehorse named Vitana V for Choi Soon-sil’s daughter, Chung Yoo-ra. She would train with her coach and her m ...

“Nothing changed,” the marketer told me. “In autumn they made an announcement [about going] back to the old clothing guidelines. ...

“A patented design may be the essential feature of a spoon or a rug,” Samsung’s brief argued. “But the same is not true of smart ...

of the product line. Samsung’s hard-earned brand—the castle Chairman Lee built—was tottering. — ON OCTOBER 24, 2016, a team of i ...

“Step down, Park Geun-hye!” Later that day, I spoke with a South Korean lawyer involved in politics. “It’s unbelievable,” he sai ...

earlier. He was tried, convicted—and pardoned. But as the weeks went on, the prosecutors learned how enmeshed Samsung was in thi ...

courthouse. Jay Lee exited, summoned for another round of questioning before a judge on accusations of bribery, embezzlement, an ...