Samsung Rising

The same morning, I was told, Samsung had gathered executives at its campus at Suwon, an hour’s drive south of Seoul, for a meet ...

Samsung’s Leeum Museum of Art, founded by the wife of Samsung’s chairman, Lee Kun-hee. A prestigious landmark, the museum was ho ...

From the right-wing group, I heard: “The Samsung unionists are communists. Send them back to North Korea!” In the wake of the bo ...

against Apple. Three months earlier, in April 2011, Steve Jobs had initiated a slew of lawsuits accusing Samsung of “slavishly” ...

“I just want you to know that the CEO approved this interview,” he said, emphasizing the gravity of the invitation. Samsung, he ...

everyone who wanted something different. Want a small screen? Samsung had it (the Galaxy S). Do you prefer a bigger screen? Sams ...

larger phones “Hummers.” “No one’s going to buy that,” he said at a press conference in July 2010. Samsung’s management team did ...

next iPhone was slated to be a modest release. Its physical design wasn’t changing much, and its look and feel were going to be ...

DIAGRAM DESIGNED BY GORDON BRUCE AND JON CRAINE. USED WITH PERMISSION. Samsung’s ownership structure in 2016. The Samsung Group ...

our supply [for the Note 7]. Curved displays, batteries, you name it.” Executives made things worse by repeatedly changing their ...

“The Galaxy Note 7 is a beautiful, capable Android phone that showcases Samsung’s best in design, battery life, speed and featur ...

grand master of the ruling dynasty’s palace court, an office called the Future Strategy Office (FSO) that acted as disciplinaria ...

the FAA about whether the phones were still allowed on airplanes. Because there hadn’t been a proper recall yet, the FAA couldn’ ...

neighborhood of Seoul. “They don’t know what’s going on. They’re not a testing agency. They’re a decision-making body.” Chul Wan ...

career. Chul Wan had gotten hold of a small shopping bag’s worth of Note 7s and was attempting to re-create the fires at home. H ...

— IN THE UNITED STATES, CPSC chairman Elliot Kaye was finally able to put his foot down and intervene after a frustrating two we ...

name “Samsung” could become permanent. “When the family spoke, you didn’t challenge it,” dozens of executives told me. “[Jay Y. ...

Shadow of Empire I FIRST VISITED DAEGU, a city in southeastern South Korea, in the autumn of 2013, wandering the city after its ...

perm, called an ajumma in Korean, asked me in English. She identified herself as a professor at a local university. “It’s a glob ...

inferno, in the form of World War II, that would claim the lives of millions. B.C. had both financial and patriotic reasons for ...