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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/obituaries/lee-kun-hee-dies-samsung.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/obituaries/lee-kun-hee-di...

• neonate 6y ago
  https://archive.is/0bEcU https://archive.is/0bEcU
  • atombender 6y ago
    Not working for me, but this one is: https://beta.trimread.com/articles/45951 https://beta.trimread.com/articles/45951
• someperson 6y ago
  Much more detailed article. Thanks!
• someperson 6y ago
  > In 1995, as part of the emphasis on quality, he visited a Samsung plant in the town of Gumi after a batch of cellphones was found to be defective. > [...] > Together they watched as $50 million worth of phones, fax machines and other inventory was smashed to bits and set ablaze. The employees wept. Interesting, in a documentary (puff piece) by Singapore-based news organisation CNA, I heard a near identical story about faulty fridges made by the China-based manufacturer Haier [1] being smashed by their workers in a similar way in 1984 after an order by CEO Zhang Ruimin: https://youtu.be/WK7mxBy1fNw?t=594 https://youtu.be/WK7mxBy1fNw?t=594 Sounds like it's a a common strategy for low-quality manufacturers trying to improve themselves (other than Kaizen / The Toyota Way)
  • fakedang 6y ago
    Ngl, heard a similar story about Konosuke Matsushita at Panasonic. I think it's a cultural thing, but why would Haier do it in the 1980s, I don't know. Chinese products were known as being shit well into the 00s.