Samsung Galaxy Note 7 fiasco signals bigger problems at Korea Inc
Samsung, like nation as a whole, fosters top-down culture that stifles innovation and buries festering problems
Seoul
BEFORE a world audience watching online, Samsung on Monday offered details and schematics showing how its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone went from cutting-edge technology to a costly, combustible failure.
But for many of the company's critics, the most interesting part of the presentation was what Samsung did not say: how could such a technologically advanced titan - a symbol of South Korea's considerable industrial might - allow the problems to happen to begin with?
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