Analyse Asia with Bernard Leong
Business:Management
In episode 326, Geoffrey Cain, author of "Samsung Rising" joins us in a two parts conversation on his journey across Asia as a journalist and author and discuss the backstory of his new book behind the Samsung Group and how it rise to be the most powerful Chaebol (large family-owned business conglomerate) in Korea. In the first part of the conversation, Geoffrey discuss the inspiration and the main themes behind "Samsung Rising", and shares the origin story of Samsung and how they went from an agriculture business to a global technology giant today along with Apple and Huawei by a family owned enterprise spanning three generations.
Here are the interesting show notes and links to the discussion (with time-stamps included):
Geoffrey Cain, author of “Samsung Rising”, and also regular commentator on The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Time & The New Republic and former correspondent in The Economist (Website, @geoffrey_cain, LinkedIn) How did you start your career? What have you learned from covering North & South Korea, China and Cambodia in your career journey? In your career journey, what are the key lessons you can share with the younger audience? Samsung Rising (Random House, Amazon, Apple Books) What is the inspiration behind writing the book “Samsung Rising”? Who are the intended audience of the book? If you will to summarize the key takeaways of the book, what would they be so that you can spark their interest to learn more? Can you talk about the origins of Samsung and what type of businesses that the family behind the company have grown from an agricultural conglomerate to modern technology giant today? The family behind Samsung have gone through three generations: the founder Lee Byung-chul (or B.C Lee in short), Lee Kun-hee and recently to Jay Lee. Can you talk about how each leader has been different and what their contributions to Samsung have been?Podcast Information:
RSS Feed Apple Podcasts Himalaya Spotify Libsyn Google Play Overcast FM SoundCloud Luminary Twitter Facebook Video Facebook Page Linkedin Stitcher Castbox RadioPublic Acast PodBean ListenNotes TuneInThe show is hosted and produced by Carol Yin (@CarolYujiaYin) and originally created by Bernard Leong (@bernardleong, Linkedin). Sound credits for the intro music: Taro Iwashiro, "The Beginning" from Red Cliff Soundtrack.
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