Samsung Rising

marketing team dined with a delegation of about two dozen executives from Warner Bros. Some of the people on Samsung’s side of t ...

of a Hollywood filmmaker. The agreements with Sprint and others mandated a process of reviews and approvals for projects like th ...

twenty each year. When Kim first started at Samsung in 1999, the company wasn’t even on the list. — SONY, MEANWHILE, WAS IN trou ...

Bordeaux FOR ITS FINAL ASSAULT on Sony, the chairman of Samsung—now in wavering health—summoned a rising star named Choi Gee-sun ...

of chairman without blundering. “The whole room would stand up and clap and bow and things like that as he would make his way to ...

In 1995 he began a doctorate at Harvard Business School, where he cultivated an interest in the dot-com world of eBay and Amazon ...

the brunt of the losses, despite having invested his own money. Samsung ordered nine Samsung affiliates to buy up the failing e- ...

“teaching him how to engage with people internationally.” He then beckoned him to their table. “Hyun introduced us, saying to Ja ...

three floors to their building....Finally one of the top executives who were running Samsung Electronics went in and said, ‘Stop ...

by engineers in China,” he wrote in an email. The final design, however, achieved what the chairman had been pushing for: a mini ...

Unholy Alliance IN 2005 HWANG CHANG-GYU, the president of Samsung’s semiconductor and memory business, traveled with two fellow ...

In 2002 Hwang rolled out his new system, called “Hwang’s law,” paying homage to “Moore’s law,” a term coined by Intel co-founder ...

choice. In the lead-up to the launch of the iPhone, Samsung saved Apple from calamity. In February 2006, David Tupman, Apple’s v ...

the phone. Steve Jobs was grateful to his South Korean partners. For now. ...

The Emperor Has No Clothes THOUGH THEY SUPPLIED APPLE’S chips, Samsung’s executives, complacent and successful, paid little heed ...

I FIRST MET KIM Yong-chul in September 2016, at a modest municipal government office in his hometown of Gwangju, a city on South ...

2005 or Chairman Lee II’s criminal conviction in 1997. Samsung forcefully denied the allegations and later described Kim Yong-ch ...

to do.” Samsung still didn’t have an iconic product, nor had it completed its generational succession. “It was just a show,” Yon ...

grata. No longer a prosecutor, he couldn’t bring the case against the chairman and Samsung himself. He was helpless. “A state of ...

“I’m already doing the prosecutors. And the K1s,” he said, referring to alumni of the influential Kyunggi High School, an academ ...