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...reforms than the IMF called for. By the time the storm had passed, some of South Korea's biggest companies had disappeared. Mighty Daewoo, one of the Big Four chaebol, was dismembered and its founder prosecuted. But others used the crisis as a spur to tough action. Samsung Electronics boss Lee Kun Hee, his back to the wall, browbeat top executives into rethinking the company. A decade later, Samsung is a global powerhouse with design and technology sophistication that was impossible to imagine at the time. Hyundai Motors, too, endured the crucible and emerged stronger...
...Sulumi A musician, promoter and label boss, the tireless Sulumi is the Beijing underground's man to know...
...work in retail. Do you have to hide this habit from your boss...
...sunny October afternoon, the normally teeming streets of the fashionable district of Nisantasi are oddly quiet. The occasional tourist couple wanders by. Behind elegant windows advertising new autumn collections, plush stores like Hugo Boss, Louis Vuitton and Armani are empty. Groups of sales attendants hover nervously by the entrance. "Business is terrible," says the director of one popular U.S. luxury label. "We hoped it would pick up after Ramadan, but it hasn't. Nobody wants to lose face by officially going on sale in October because it's unheard of, but in-store most labels are offering...
Inveterate partygoers try not to think about the morning after. For it is then they will realize that telling off the boss, such exhilarating fun the night before, may have consequences later that day. Or they will wake up to regret grabbing the microphone from the singer in the rented band and regaling the room with a medley of Oh Danny Boy and When Irish Eyes Are Smiling. And, oh, the lampshade on the head, and, ah, the hand on the backside of a stranger. Why? And what...