As exploding batteries force recall of flagship phone, can a rising star rethink company’s business model to prevent an even bigger bang?
By Geoffrey Cain
South China Morning Post
September 26, 2016
Combustible smartphones are a symptom of deeper management problems at the Korean company.
By Geoffrey Cain
The Wall Street Journal
Oct 12, 2016
SEOUL, South Korea — Of course, China is renowned as a tough place to do business. But world’s biggest brand names have a long history of investing major bucks in booming South Korea — only to whiff.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Feb 2, 2015
SEOUL, South Korea — In a trendy Gangnam high-rise, a whiz-kid professor named Lee Sihan urges his classroom of 28 students not to fret. The big exam you’ve been preparing for — the one that could land you a Samsung dream job — won’t be that bad if you put the hours in.
By Geoffrey Cain
USA TODAY
Jan 26, 2015
SEOUL, South Korea — Last month’s Sony hack was a national debacle, nearly canceling “The Interview” and denying moviegoers a fruitful two hours of butthole and gay jokes.
By Geoffrey Cain
USA TODAY
Jan 15, 2015
SEOUL, South Korea — For more than a year, the world has watched the bold economic experiment known as Abenomics, once exalted as the saving grace for two decades of economic torpor in Japan.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Aug 22, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea opened its much-hyped Masik Pass ski area this winter.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Mar 12, 2014
SEOUL — Long before the rise of smartphones, Samsung was known for supplying parts to companies such as Apple and Sony. Today Samsung plays an indispensable role in the global supply chain for phones, refrigerators and TVs thanks to its talent for producing components invisible to most consumers.
By Geoffrey Cain
Nikkei Asia Review
Feb 13, 2014
SEOUL — The Samsung Group is most widely known these days for its smartphones, which have been outselling those of any other company. But the South Korean technology giant has also been quietly winning business building the telecommunications networks used for its phones as well as those of its competitors.
By Geoffrey Cain
Nikkei Asia Review
Feb 13, 2014
SEOUL — Lee Kun-hee, chairman of Samsung Electronics and head of the Samsung Group, is working to instill a sense of crisis in his companies’ ranks, urging staff to shed old ways and help Samsung reinvent itself.
By Geoffrey Cain
Nikkei Asia Review
Feb 13, 2014
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