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Unfortunately, such an approach would get me fired. So, fresh and fearless after a sun-filled vacation, I dug into a stack of flat-panel monitors I had ordered a few weeks earlier when their prices went into free fall. Over the past month, IBM, NEC, Philips, Samsung and Viewsonic have all announced 15-in. flat-panel displays costing from $499 to $599, almost half their typical price a year...
...instead of going to the concert you could just download MP3 music files from the Internet on mobile phones like the latest model from Samsung being shown at CeBIT...
...mass starvation a couple of years ago. And if North Korea is going to make it economically, South Korea is the partner that matters. "We speak the same language and share the same culture," says Park Young Hwa, who is executive vice president of South Korea's giant Samsung conglomerate and runs the company's business with the North. "It's a logical place for us to find new talent...
...Korea's economy. Despite years of animosity, it is probably in the South's interest to facilitate the North's economic growth. "If North Korea collapses and forces premature unification, both sides would be completely ruined," says Dong Yong Seung, an economist who concentrates on North Korean issues for Samsung's Economic Research Institute. "Seoul can't support both economies...
...Young Su paid a visit there last year and was struck by a program called Golden Horse. The software scans fingertips and then attempts to diagnose a person's health. Joo paid $1 million for the program, which he is marketing to herbal medicine shops that have computers. Samsung, meanwhile, paid $730,000 for five KCC programs, which it is loading onto its PCs. They include cooking software, a chess game and a reading program for children. "Their programmers don't have a lot of access to the outside world," says Samsung's Park, "but their fundamentals are very strong...