Samsung: Three Stars — How A Korean Trading Company Became The World's Most Powerful Electronics Empire

In 1938, Lee Byung-chul founded Samsung with thirty thousand won and forty employees in a provincial Korean city. Eighty-six years later, the company he built accounts for roughly a fifth of South Korea's total exports, makes the memory chips inside nearly every phone and server on earth, and has twice been worth more than the entire GDP of the country that made it. This is the story of three generations, two great transformations, and one company that is simultaneously South Korea's greatest pride and its most dangerous dependency.