By Bryan Harris
Financial Times
Jan 31, 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.
“Its smartphones and televisions have a stellar reputation. That’s the Dr Jekyll side.
Mr Hyde is the vexed corporate governance, the troubled family rule, the aggressive campaigns to control its image and . . . the image among [South] Koreans that it uses high prestige as a shield for wielding dark political power.”
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