http://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-politics-samsung-group-lea-idUSKBN15V2UJ?il=0
Embezzlement and bribery charges related to the Korean president's shaman cult scandal.
>>58977757
>Samsung is slowly dying
>Sony will take over once more
I guess the Japanese is superior again in the east.
>>58977897
>Only core component that Sony still makes is CCDs
>Sony TVs use Samsung LCD panels
The whole consumer electronics industry is crashing because no one is willing to pay for quality anymore. People just buy whatever the cheapest, TV, sound bar, etc... is at Wal-Mart.
>muh 'Boo'-jin
>>58977757
Is that filthy frank?
>>58979780
The fact that there is no premium brand anymore isn't helping. In the 80s a Sony was a product of better than average quality, now all brands have cheap shit.
>>58979819
Really, its the smartphone (and to a lesser extent tablets) that has destroyed the consumer electronics industry.
Not only does a smartphone/tablet replace all these things, it also replaces the 'home theater' for most people.
>>58977757
Apparently he was the de-facto leader of Samsung. I can't believe this isn't bigger news on /g/.
>>58979936
As if embezzlement and bribery weren't rampant everywhere
>>58977757
Good that piece of garlic eating shit. I wonder if he had anything to do with the decision to enter the lcd tv market.
>>58979958
WHOA hold it with those hot implications nigger. What's significant isn't what he did, it's that he's actually being arrested for it, and that he's considered the de-facto head of Samsung.