The Knives Are Out for South Korea’s Robber Barons
June 23, 2017
Business clans have dominated the country’s economy for decades – but their time may finally be up.
By Geoffrey Cain
Foreign Policy
Jun 23, 2017
Business clans have dominated the country’s economy for decades – but their time may finally be up.
By Geoffrey Cain
Foreign Policy
Jun 23, 2017
“Chaebols are just giant conglomerates that control so much of the economy on a scale just not seen in a lot of the world,” says Geoffrey Cain, who trained as an anthropologist and is writing a book about Samsung.
By Lauren Frayer
NPR
May 28, 2017
“Some South Koreans are calling Lee Jae-yong ‘s trial “the trial of the century.” “I don’t think there will be a coup d’etat,” said Geoffrey Cain, author of a forthcoming book on Samsung.
By Sherisse Pham
CNN
Mar 9, 2017
“The thing about Samsung is, it’s a giant wound-up ball of yarn of cross-holdings,” said Geoffrey Cain, the author of a coming book on Samsung. “The setup is so complicated that sometimes I wonder if a group of smart people could find a way to tug at the right connection and find a way to loosen it up, to unravel it a bit, just to see if they could pull it away from the company.”
By Choe Sang-Hun and Paul Mozur
The New York Times
Mar 4, 2017
The arrest of Jay Lee, the de facto leader of Samsung, raises fears he shares Korean dynastic weaknesses “There’s a generation gap on what people think about Jay Lee, and this reflects the cultural struggle in Samsung and in Korean society,” says Geoffrey Cain, author of an upcoming book on Samsung.
By Bryan Harris
Financial Times
Feb 18, 2017
Author Geoffrey Cain and David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy’s chief executive officer, discuss the arrest of billionaire heir to Samsung Lee Jae-yong for bribery allegations and other charges related to a corruption scandal. They speak with Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Technology.”
Bloomberg Technology
Feb 17, 2017
[Samsung Vice Chairman] Jay Y. Lee is in a vulnerable position,” Cain says. “The cross-shareholding system is like a yarn ball, if someone finds just the right place to tug, they could pull out the right part and the whole thing could fall apart overnight.
By Josh Horwitz
Quartz
Aug 24, 2017
A court in South Korea turned down prosecutors’ request to arrest Samsung Group’s Jay Y. Lee on alleged bribery, perjury and embezzlement, letting him stay in place atop the country’s most powerful company while they continue their investigation.
Bloomberg Technology
Jan 19, 2017
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
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
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