<story><title>“Samsung Rising” goes deep on corruption, chaebols, and corporate chaos</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/10/21216092/samsung-rising-book-interview-geoffrey-cain</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eatonphil</author><text>I have a really hard time finding books on Korean companies, methods, or up-to-date planning; particularly on Samsung, Hyundai, LG or new fields like biotech&amp;#x2F;renewable; and preferably written by Korean journalists or academics. On the other hand there&amp;#x27;s a lot you can find written about American or Japanese companies like Taiichi Ohno on Toyota, John Bogle on Vanguard, MITI and the Japanese Miracle, etc. I get that this is primarily a matter of 1) impact and 2) population. But Hyundai, LG and Samsung are major international companies now.&lt;p&gt;The few books on Korean companies I&amp;#x27;ve read, written by Americans, have been terribly pithy and missing a lot of actual history. I will still give Samsung Rising a read though.&lt;p&gt;But if you have worked with Korean companies before and have any recommendations for good histories of companies or methods, I&amp;#x27;d love to get them. Biographies are a little more common and a little less interesting to me. Over biographies I&amp;#x27;d prefer up to date recommendations on the Korean economy and planning. Most of the books out there were written in the 90s&amp;#x2F;00s.&lt;p&gt;Edit: recommendations don&amp;#x27;t have to be in English, Korean is fine.</text></comment>
<story><title>“Samsung Rising” goes deep on corruption, chaebols, and corporate chaos</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/10/21216092/samsung-rising-book-interview-geoffrey-cain</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pcr910303</author><text>Okay, as a Korean, I would just like to chime in and say that Samsung is much more than a smartphone&amp;#x2F;digital gadget company. It’s a very big company.&lt;p&gt;It not only produces displays and semiconductors, it also makes home appliances, it builds apartments, it runs hotels, it runs hospitals, it issues credit cards and runs insurance, etc... which means that the Galaxy Note 7 crisis is pretty much nothing to that gigantic company.&lt;p&gt;Also, keep in mind that a lot of Koreans (including myself) doesn’t think Samsung positive — it’s hard to get unbiased opinions about Samsung (whether it’s positive or not). So if you’re reading this, please take it with a grain of salt.</text></comment>