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Teflon Korea emerges relatively unscathed from COVID-19 crisis

Time to get on with the bold structural changes Seoul has been delaying for years

William Pesek
| South Korea
It is time to shed the Samsung Nation moniker for good,   © Reuters

William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."

It is time to rename the Republic of Samsung. How about Teflon Korea?

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