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
I trekked through Washington DC on a mission. The US government had released a commemorative coin showing Donald Trump and Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un face-to-face. Their respective flags were behind them and above them the words “peace talks” in Korean and English.
By Geoffrey Cain
Mekong Review
May 29, 2018
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
Victor Cha is experienced, informed – and no peacenik. None of that mattered for the Trump administration.
By Geoffrey Cain
Foreign Policy
Feb 2, 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
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
Geoffrey Cain first arrived in South Korea in 2009, spending a lot of time in Uijeongbu and Yangju, two military towns north of Seoul. As a journalist, he was eager to get out of the city and cover life outside the capital; these gritty camp towns became a bed of coverage for his magazine writing at Time.
By Matthew Fennell
Asia Society
Sep 14, 2017
Cambodia’s Ministry of Interior said on August 28, 2017 that it has opened an investigation into accusations spread in local pro-government media that American freelance journalist Geoffrey Cain is involved in a conspiracy to overthrow Prime Minister Hun Sen’s elected administration, according to local language news reports.
CPJ
Aug 31, 2017
Author Geoffrey Cain discusses the trial of Samsung’s Jay Y Lee and what it means for South Korea’s Chaebols. He speaks on “Bloomberg Markets: Asia.”
Bloomberg Markets: Asia
Aug 25, 2017
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