Samsung Rising

computers or going in certain sensitive rooms. So the Korean engineers visited with eyes open, memorizing the diagrams they saw. ...

Samsung’s fiftieth anniversary, showed two children gazing up at a picture of the solar system. The planets had been replaced wi ...

The Confucian and the Hippie IN 1979 IRA MAGAZINER, a future adviser to President Bill Clinton, visited Samsung’s Suwon campus a ...

The plant was “as automated as any TV plant I’d seen in America,” he wrote. As he toured the factory floors, he began to underst ...

ages”—but found the technology of the day far too primitive to produce it. But that didn’t deter Jobs. The personal computers an ...

Samsung. “That’s gonna work!” Steve would exclaim, hearing of one idea, according to Elliot. That would be followed by “No, that ...

“What do you mean, copied?” Ahn asked. “Exactly what I said,” Lutton maintained. “You copied the iPhone. The similarities are co ...

The Fifth Horseman TWO MONTHS LATER, I got a call from an editor at Fast Company magazine who needed a story. “We’re looking to ...

Olympics, slapped on televisions and handsets all over the world. Before long, Samsung would supply one in three of the world’s ...

When the chairman visited a Samsung manufacturing plant, employees were told to park behind the plant, as their cars were too ug ...

recruit competing at the annual Samsung Summer Festival, a gathering featuring sporting events and a mass games ceremony, where ...

A Chollima statue in Pyongyang, North Korea. I saw an eerily similar slogan in the video of the Samsung recruiting event, at the ...

leaders died—at least not to my knowledge. But Samsung was undergoing a similar cultural process as leadership was transferred w ...

military dress of a French musketeer—a cheerleader uttered a battle cry: “Youth with boiling blood, conquer the summer season!” ...

a checkered pattern using the Samsung colors of blue and white, spelling the word “victory” one letter at a time. The recruits t ...

company practices and North Korea, even though such comparisons are fairly common among Samsung employees themselves. Steve Jobs ...

an inevitable domino game. If Samsung Life Insurance and Samsung Fire Insurance become bankrupt, the entire insurance industry i ...

But Samsung did not know I intended to write a book. “Key contacts,” I explained, “would be coached on what to say, sources woul ...

The Scion B.C. LEE HAD BEEN nonreligious his entire life. But now, at age seventy- eight, on his deathbed, he found himself aski ...

FAMILY TREE DESIGNED BY GORDON BRUCE AND JON CRAINE. USED WITH PERMISSION. The family tree of Samsung’s founding Lee family, one ...