Samsung Rising

Korean soldiers who secretly befriend each other at the demilitarized zone (DMZ). It was a social commentary on the tragedy of t ...

[President Roh Tae-woo] received 2.5 billion won [$32.6 million] in nine installments”—more than three times the chairman’s clai ...

And with that, the hearing ended. The judge later found the chairman guilty of bribery and sentenced him to two years in prison. ...

policies across Asia led to financial collapse. One by one, currencies were falling off a cliff, from Thailand to Indonesia, wip ...

Samsung Electronics laid off one-third of its workforce, or about thirty thousand people, replaced half of its senior managers, ...

My Boss the Shit Kicker THREE FRANTIC SOUTH KOREAN executives showed up at Pete Skarzynski’s office in Richardson, Texas, in Jan ...

Before the economic crisis in Asia, Samsung had been reluctant to sell phones in the United States, because it could sell them a ...

two of us,” he told me, “because we didn’t understand Korean.” As they prepared to get on the plane again, K.T. glared at a vice ...

The executive, too terrified to speak, bowed. “I apologize to all my colleagues.” “For the next ten, fifteen minutes, the CFO ta ...

and let us through,” Skarzynski said. They arrived at the helicopter pad by the river and boarded the company helicopter, flying ...

introduced him to a new phone called the SCH-3500—a clamshell model inspired by the Motorola StarTAC, the dominant handset at th ...

— K.T. AND SKARZYNSKI TRAVELED to Verizon’s headquarters in New York City, where they hoped to land more orders. But Verizon had ...

meeting was set for Friday at 4:00 P.M.—a sign of its low priority. It was the worst possible time to pitch a sale, as everyone ...

At ten times the pledge of the other phone manufacturers, Skarzynski was worried the gift would come off as a pay-for-play deal. ...

Sony Wars PETE SKARZYNSKI, K.T., AND Peter Arnell were given enormous freedom by Samsung in America and were pretty much running ...

“My first job was as an engineer,” he told me. He had a graduate degree in engineering from UCLA. His former colleagues would re ...

“There’s no substitute for a constant stream of bigger and better new products,” a Samsung line manager later told him. “Money s ...

global scale.” For Arnell, Kim’s much-anticipated ad agency review in 2000, which was getting headlines in Advertising Age and A ...

But if Sony felt Samsung was pushing too hard, it could cut back Samsung as a supplier and potentially cripple Samsung’s memory ...

In the real-life Times Square, Samsung had spent truckloads of cash for that top-shelf ad space; its blue oval logo was in the s ...