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...climb to prominence hasn't been easy. Just a few decades ago, Samsung Group founder Lee made the annual December pilgrimage to Japan for how-to books and advice from economists and business leaders, some of whom were his classmates in the 1930s at Tokyo's prestigious Waseda University. As recently as the late 1970s, Samsung engineers were huddled over Japanese TV sets, trying to reverse-engineer their components and produce them for less. As late as 1993, Samsung Electronics remained a little-known company within one of Korea's sprawling industrial conglomerates, or chaebols. The firm was just beginning...
...climb to prominence hasn't been easy. Just a few decades ago, Samsung Group founder Lee made the annual December pilgrimage to Japan for how-to books and advice from economists and business leaders, some of whom were his classmates in the 1930s at Tokyo's prestigious Waseda University. As recently as the late 1970s, Samsung engineers were huddled over Japanese TV sets, trying to reverse-engineer their components and produce them for less. As late as 1993, Samsung Electronics remained a little-known company within one of Korea's sprawling industrial conglomerates, or chaebols. The firm was just beginning...
...climb to prominence hasn't been easy. Just a few decades ago, Samsung Group founder Lee made the annual December pilgrimage to Japan for how-to books and advice from economists and business leaders, some of whom were his classmates in the 1930s at Tokyo's prestigious Waseda University. As recently as the late 1970s, Samsung engineers were huddled over Japanese TV sets, trying to reverse-engineer their components and produce them for less. As late as 1993, Samsung Electronics remained a little-known company within one of Korea's sprawling industrial conglomerates, or chaebols. The firm was just beginning...
...such as the French and British filled their museums with booty collected from their sprawling empires. Japanese officials and scholars contend they rediscovered and helped to preserve the glories of ancient Korea, which the Koreans had long forgotten. Says Lee Sungsi, a professor of Korean literature at Tokyo's Waseda University: "The Koreans keep accusing Japan of stealing but the Japanese think they did something good. They think they should be thanked...
...Early in the 1900s, Japan began sponsoring excavations in Korea for two purposes: to bring back valuable objects and to use these artifacts to justify its eventual annexation. Says Waseda University's Sungsi: "What the Japanese wanted to stress was that Japanese and Korean roots are the same and that Korea became less prosperous only after it parted ways with Japan." The University of Tokyo's Saotome says, "They did this to justify Japanese colonization." By the time Japan declared Korea a protectorate in 1905, hordes of Japanese treasure hunters were making a living excavating tombs and selling the loot...