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Police in South Korea have raided the corporate offices of Samsung in connection with a high-profile government corruption probe. The Korea Times reports that police conducted the search on Tuesday at Samsung's headquarters on the suspicion that executives at the company were involved with illegal payments to foundations run …

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  1. a_yank_lurker

    Exploding Washing Machines

    What else do they make that explodes?

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    1. Danny 14
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      Re: Exploding Washing Machines

      Up until 2014 samsung made LOADS of things that explode through their weapons manufacturing samsung techwin arm. They sold that division to Hanwha though.

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    2. Fungus Bob
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      Re: Exploding Washing Machines

      "What else do they make that explodes?"

      PR...

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  2. elDog

    Gratuitously,

    And who was it that said that the NORKs were not capable of superb espionage?

    Even if they can't get a bitty missile with a fissionable warhead into some reasonable parabolic arc, they are still capable of using their proven Sony-exploit techniques to explode western devil's handsets in mid-flight.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Entertainment_hack

    Personally, I think the current Sonn of Sun of Kim of Jung of Il is just jollying around, All he wants is some high-class cognac and pretty pictures.

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  3. Alistair
    Windows

    Need to tidy up the labelling here

    Soon-Sil is the close associate of Guen-Hye.

    Soon-Sil's father was the spooky-nutbar-mystic head of a magical cult.

    Guen-Hye at one time considered *him* a mentor. <It was how the two ladies met>

    All that aside, sitting as far out from this as I have been, I rather suspect that someone in middlemanagement of South Korea has decided that it is time for the Park reign to come to an end.

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    1. sniperpaddy
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      Re: Need to tidy up the labelling here

      Changing his name to Soon-Gon

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    When a single company is 17% of a country's GDP

    Lots of incestuous connections between that company and government should not be a surprise to anyone. What is a surprise is that someone is actually policing it.

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  5. Denarius
    Trollface

    maybe they can get green cards ?

    Migrate to help new merkin adminstration ? Have just the right touch if the OMG commentards can be believed. Oh, wait...

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  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Dear Samsung thanks for...

    ...Making time-starved consumers play the Samsung TV-Panel-Lottery game...

    ...Killing off basic non-Smart TV's in favor of Ad-slinging / info-slurping users...

    ...

    ...

    Karma is a bitch...

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  7. Tom Paine

    Pet peeve

    "looking to".

    Ugh. Please. No.

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  8. John Brown (no body) Silver badge
    Joke

    another massive recall for 3 million washing machines

    Have they been banned from passenger flights in the US too?

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    1. mics39
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      Re: another massive recall for 3 million washing machines

      I tried to take one with me on flight to Seoul for factory repair but no, not even Korean Air allowed me carry it aboard. :)

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