SAMSUNG RISING GOES DEEP ON CORRUPTION, CHAEBOLS, AND CORPORATE CHAOS.
An interview with author Geoffrey Cain
book link:
https://www.geoffreycain.net/samsung-rising/
Read the article at
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/10/21216092/samsung-rising-book-interview-geoffrey-cain
Reads like a thriller, whipping us through the dramatic story of the world’s largest technology company.” —Daniel Tudor, author of Korea: The Impossible Country
Samsung has been through corruption scandals and se.x scandals and political crises and faulty products and their leaders have been in and out of court for all kinds of embezzlement, tax evasion accusations, and shady share sales and financial mismanagement and destruction of evidence. Samsung is a company that just has a track record of messing up, but then managing to survive it intact.(in relation to note 7 incident)
Miky Lee, who is the producer of Parasite, she was an heiress to the Samsung founding family.
Phrase i liked:
Samsung for a long time was essentially like a Japanese company. In Japan, you have the zaibatsu from the war era, and Samsung was essentially modeled on that idea of this God-like corporate leader who has this top-down vision that he sends down to all the executives. And that’s what allowed them to make all this fast progress, that they did what they did without question. They did it for the glory of Korea.
