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The multi-Oscar-winning film Parasite, a bitterly comic-tragic satire on class divisions and rivalries in South Korea, owes much of its success to the 61-year-old granddaughter of the founder of Korea’s largest chaebol or conglomerate, Lee Byung-Chull.
By Donald Kirk
Forbes
Feb 11, 2020
If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court ruled in 2010’s Citizens Uniteddecision, it’s only natural that they should have biographies. Forthcoming narratives about businesses new and old offer a window onto each company’s history as well as the social and economic contexts out of which they arose and which they in turn have influenced.
By Daniel Lefferts
Publishers Weekly
Nov 29, 2019
Three years after explosive allegations of graft and corruption brought down the government of Asia’s fourth-largest economy, South Korea’s chaebol culture will again come under the microscope when Samsung Electronics Co. heir Jay Y. Lee returns to court.
By Sohee Kim
Bloomberg
Oct 24, 2019
The specter of online shopping is haunting Korea’s giant Shinsegae group and its billionaire vice chairman Chung Yong-jin, who runs Shinsegae, Korea’s second-largest retailer after Lotte by sales, and mass-market retail subsidiary E-mart.
By Donald Kirk
Forbes
Jul 9, 2019
A U-turn over a free-trade agreement he once championed has critics of the South Korean president questioning both his loyalty to the US and his ability to deliver a more equitable economy
By David Josef Volodzko
South China Morning Post
Mar 4, 2018
Lee Jae-young, the de facto leader of the huge Samsung business empire is getting out of jail sooner than expected.
By Sherisse Pham
CNN
Feb 5, 2018
Samsung struggles to shake off claims its culture is akin to North Korea. “Samsung is the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde of the technology world,” says Geoffrey Cain, author of The Republic of Samsung, who drew the parallel with North Korea.
By Bryan Harris
Financial Times
Jan 31, 2018
Geoffrey Cain’s book, which talks about the company’s growth and corporate culture, will be published in February. Freelance reporter Geoffrey Cain, who authored a book on Samsung that is set to be published in February, speaks with a Hankyoreh reporter at an office in the Hannam neighborhood of Seoul on Nov. 21.
By Kim Pognee
HANKYOREH
Dec 28, 2017
Samsung said some of the statements related to Cain’s 2009 visit to a Samsung office were not true. In a recent interview with progressive newspaper Hankyoreh, Cain described a visit to Samsung eight years ago as a correspondent for the Global Post.
By Elizabeth Shim
UPI
Dec 5, 2017
This story is part of Forbes’ coverage of Asia’s 50 Richest Families 2017. “Lee Kun-hee, the chairman of Samsung, was a master of careful, cautious and shrewd decision-making,” says Geoffrey Cain, writing a book about the empire.
By Donald Kirk
Forbes
Nov 14, 2017
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