https://www.scmp.com/rss/323345/feed Geoffrey Cain is the author of an upcoming book on Samsung from Crown. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com “I went bankrupt six times. I lost all the money entrusted to me by my mother,” said stock trader Kim Ki-nam. “I planned to kill myself by throwing myself off a cliff over a creek.” Kim pitched his tent in the mountains, but “didn’t have the courage to die”. He contemplated the tree branches swaying, building a new philosophy about the stock market: “You don’t see the wind that’s moving the branches. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” In the 18 years since then, Kim, 44, who runs a... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/2169428/giant-killers-shareholder-ants-taking-south-koreas-scandal-hit?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/2169428/giant-killers-shareholder-ants-taking-south-koreas-scandal-hit?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 For Samsung, the Galaxy smartphone was once an unlikely saviour. First released in 2009, this premium line brought the company out of a mud of obscure competitors and slung it into a duel with Apple. The world of tech entered a new epoch: these little supercomputers were its battleground, as were the giants that made them. Analysis: Samsung’s rush to beat Apple’s iPhone 7 backfires as burning Samsung 7s turn into nightmare Samsung had spent the previous years overtaking Sony in televisions and... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/business/article/2022102/why-samsungs-recall-galaxy-smartphones-threatens-its-universe?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/business/article/2022102/why-samsungs-recall-galaxy-smartphones-threatens-its-universe?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 Sep 2016 02:04:41 +0000