Korea’s Chaebols were created in post-war Korea to give the companies and the country a competitive leg up as it sought to rebuild. As these companies globalize, many of them find that they are being held back by the same things that created advantages for so many decades. Change is afoot everywhere with the past hardly prologue. Richard Levick’s op-ed in the Korea Herald provides a pathway forward.

My Old Man
“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass.’ ‘We’re