The difference between Nokia and Samsung is that Nokia does not have supermarkets, home appliances, television channels, healthcare products, and more (although

The difference between Nokia and Samsung is that Nokia does not have supermarkets, home appliances, television channels, healthcare products, and more (although chaebol aren't supposed to have retail banking I believe still). Samsung going out of business for Korea would be like Google, Halliburton, GE, and Ford going out of business at the same time to the US economy - rather devastating I'd imagine and would take a good while to recover even though there's still a bit of competition across areas that they do business in.