Samsung Rising

COURTESY OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, PHOTO BY SEONG-JOON CHO Samsung heir Jay Y. Lee had been rising to the role of chairman throug ...

the country famously known as the Republic of Samsung. The winners in this Korean drama of dalliances were easily sorted from th ...

“We are becoming like you. We are becoming like Americans, too short-term and cold and logical,” he said, a sadness in his voice ...

circuiting the batteries and causing them to combust. Hong Kong–based Amperex (“Supplier B”), he said, manufactured functional b ...

“Samsung’s proposed solution and their adjustments to the product,” he said, “resemble the solution that you would come up with ...

Consumers are fickle. The love of a beautiful product in their hands and a compelling brand are ultimately what matter. Even aft ...

On August 2 Jay took the stand. He’d never before spoken publicly at such length and depth. The prosecutors went after him hard, ...

“None of us will ever forget what happened last year,” CEO D.J. Koh said after taking the stage on August 23 at New York’s Park ...

“The defendant, as a de facto head of Samsung Group...facilitated each crime, making his role in the crimes and his influence on ...

“That pisses me off,” a former member of Todd Pendleton’s team said about the iPhone X. “The iPhone X isn’t a great phone by its ...

I retreated to Seoul, where I met a spokesman from the office of the new South Korean president at the Seoul Foreign Corresponde ...

Epilogue “[THE] PREVIOUS 10 YEARS, it was an era of the smartphone,” Samsung CEO D.J. Koh told The Independent. “From this year, ...

Koreans had elected a left-wing president, Moon Jae-in, who pledged to clean up corporate corruption. President Moon appointed a ...

one judge said. “The defendant provided a bribe, knowing it was bribery to support [the friend’s daughter], but was unable to re ...

SOUTH KOREA’S POLITICAL LEADERS’ reforms were tested again when, in July 2018, Elliott Management, the New York–based hedge fund ...

Samsung Bioepis soared by eighteen times. Why would it have committed a possible accounting fraud? “Some analysts said the accou ...

“We deeply regret the unsavory circumstances resulting from disgraceful acts such as the destruction of evidence,” Samsung said ...

With advance notice from media reviewers, Samsung acted quickly before releasing the Galaxy Fold into the hands of the public. O ...

— PROSECUTORS APPEALED JAY LEE’S bribery case to the Supreme Court. The audience stood up and the cameras flickered as the thirt ...

on the screen. Do not expose the phone to liquids or small particles.” Samsung said the Fold was a luxury device for early adopt ...