By Geoffrey CainForeign Policy Feb 2, 2018 Victor Cha is experienced, informed – and no peacenik. None of that mattered for the Trump administration. SEOUL and WASHINGTON — South Koreans are so accustomed to on-again, off-again nuclear tests and...
By Geoffrey Cain South China Morning Post September 26, 2016 As exploding batteries force recall of flagship phone, can a rising star rethink company’s business model to prevent an even bigger bang? For Samsung, the Galaxy smartphone was once an unlikely saviour....
By Geoffrey Cain The Nation Nov 21, 2017 At half-past-midnight on September 3, more than 100 police raided the home of Cambodia’s opposition leader, Kem Sokha. The security forces hustled him away to a maximum-security prison just outside of Phnom Penh. More...
By Geoffrey Cain Foreign Policy Jun 23, 2017 Business clans have dominated the country’s economy for decades – but their time may finally be up. “I was a god,” the scion proclaimed to me over dinner, reminiscing about the glory before his downfall. “Now...
By Geoffrey CainThe Wall Street Journal Oct 12, 2016 Combustible smartphones are a symptom of deeper management problems at the Korean company. The Galaxy Note 7 recall and cancellation isn’t the first time Samsung has suffered a quality crisis. But the scale and nature...
By Geoffrey Cain Los Angeles Review of Books May 11, 2015 IN FEBRUARY 1951, New York Times correspondent George Barrett, traveling with an American armored column, stumbled on the ghostly remains of a Korean hamlet that had been bombed out by US aircraft. “The...
