The difference between Nokia and Samsung is that Nokia does not have supermarkets, home appliances, television channels, healthcare products, and more (although chaebol aren't supposed to have retail banking I believe still). Samsung going out of business for Korea would be like Google, Halliburton, GE, and Ford going out of business at the same time to the US economy - rather devastating I'd imagine and would take a good while to recover even though there's still a bit of competition across areas that they do business in.
Not to mention Techwin: http://www.samsungtechwin.com/product/product_05_01_01.asp
Re:Samsung is imploding in China
by makeitsuckless on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @08:19AM
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> the country is rebuilding itself post-Nokia
Surely you mean "post financial crisis". Nokia was big, but not that big, certainly not compared to the might of Samsung. Finland has been doing fine ever since joining the EU, and the ups and downs have been the same as most EU countries, with or without Nokia.
Re:Samsung is imploding in China
by freehunter on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @10:19AM
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I think what is meant is "the Finnish tech industry is rebuilding since Nokia left".
"fuck you Samsung but thanks for making Korean a little bit more relevant in the tech industry."\n
-> I would have concurred 3-5 years ago, but I disagree now. I think now Samsung is the bottleneck which functions as an engineer hog and nefariously undermines their productivity/potential.
Take Tizen. An Army of 1,000+ developers have been working on it for years. What do they have now?
I am living in Finland which used to be the country of Nokia and the country is rebuilding itself post-Nokia. South Korea can do the same "without Samsung".