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...what may prove to be a milestone for corporate reform in South Korea , the country's most powerful businessman on Tuesday resigned from his post as chairman of Samsung Electronics...
Under Lee's guidance, Samsung transformed itself from a little-known purveyor of second-rate electronics into a major producer of mobile phones, LCD panels and memory chips with a globally recognized brand name. However, Lee also became a symbol of the difficulties Korea's major corporations have faced in modernizing their management practices. A shadowy figure rarely seen in public, Lee was treated as a demigod by Samsung employees but his actual role in managing the company remained opaque. Through complex networks of cross-shareholdings, Lee, the son of Samsung's founder, played a dominant role in directing...
DENVER The Helio Mysto by Samsung ($149) has a useful GPS for navigating mountain roads...
AMSTERDAM The rounded shape of Bang & Olufsen and Samsung's Serenata ($1,574) was inspired by sea rocks...
...post its third straight monthly trade deficit - the first time that's happened in more than five years - as high oil prices and declining exports continue to bite. "The external environment helped the two previous Presidents," says Kim Kyeong Won, an economist and senior vice president of the Samsung Economic Research Institute (SERI), "but it won't be working as good for President...