Geoffrey Cain, author of a forthcoming book about the so-called Samsung empire, says the validity of reports about replacement Note 7s catching fire was met with skepticism inside Samsung itself. Employees told him they felt like they couldn’t really touch the topic for fear of “being branded trouble-makers.”

By Alina Selyukh and Elise Hu
NPR

Oct 18, 2016

Geoffrey Cain says that South Korean President Park Geun-hye has turned out to be “less friendly” to chaebols compared to her predecessor, the ultra-conservative president Lee Myung-bak.

By Isabella Steger
Quartz

Oct 17, 2016

BBC

Oct 16, 2016

Ce désastre illustre « la culture d’entreprise d’un groupe obsédé par la vitesse » selon Geoffrey Cain, un journaliste d’enquête qui vient d’écrire un livre sur Samsung. « Samsung est une entreprise de type militaire. Sa force, c’est sa rapidité d’exécution : être capable de sortir des produits très vite », détaille-t-il.

By Frédéric Ojardias
RFI

Oct 10, 2016

Die südkoreanische Lee-Familie hat Samsung mit unerbittlicher Härte zum Weltmarktführer für Smartphones gemacht. Seit Handys reihenweise in Flammen aufgehen, wird ihr Streben zum Risiko für die Verbraucher.

By Stefan Schultz
SPIEGEL

Oct 9, 2016

Lotte is for many South Koreans and Japanese as lamblike a brand as Disney, but behind the amusements parks and cinemas lies a Machiavellian political saga that reads more like a scene from Game of Thrones than The Aristocats.

By David Josef Volodzko
South China Morning Post

Sep 3, 2016

It was refreshing not to be in the constrained confines of Pyongyang, but in a more natural environment watching people go about their daily routine unhindered. However, the narrative is never as linear as it seems. It helped that we were travelling with Geoffrey Cain, a former journalist and author, now studying for a doctorate in Korean Studies

By Monisha Rajesh
The Telegraph

May 12, 2016

Geoffrey Cain, who heads the Korea research team of the OGP, talks about the state of Korean democracy, improvements that should be made and Korea’s commitments within the OGP.

Korea and the World

Aug 26, 2015

Local coverage surprisingly overlooks some serious espionage allegations that states the New Zealand authorities had spied on a former South Korean trade minister when he was a candidate for the top job at the World Trade Organization.

By John Power
The Diplomat

Mar 27, 2015

On March 2, 2015 Asia Pacific Research CEO Geoffrey Cain discusses Samsung’s unveiling of the S6 and S6 Edge, featuring a three-sided screen, with Bloomberg’s Rishaad Salamat on “Trending Business.”

Bloomberg’s “Trending Business”

Mar 2, 2015