24 questions of Samsung founder
By Kim Ji-myungThe sinking of the Sewol ferry has thrown all Koreans into an unprecedented sincere reflection about life and death, and love for family. Parents are now grateful for the simple fact that they can eat dinner together with their children. The tragedy has awakened many Korean parents to some very basic truths.Many fundamental questions are now boggling our minds. It reminds me of the 24 questions that were raised by the late founder and chairman of the Samsung Group, Lee Byung-chul, just before he died in 1987. Chairman Lee wanted to know answers to these questions but he did not raise them overnight."Chairman Lee was not a man of academic or pedantic style at all,” said his last secretary at a recent all-religion meeting. He had been one of Lee's closest aides during his final eight years.The chairman's queries started casually some 10 years before his death. The first question was straightforward and realistic: ``Why do our CEOs tell lies? Why do they promise higher growth in sales when they know they cannot meet the goal?”Thus more than 100 questions of Ch