Former Samsung employee here who has spent a lot of time in both the Seoul and Suwon (aka Digital City) offices and worked with a number of different teams.

This is mostly inaccurate.
- Short sighted and greedy depends on the org.
- Stating that employees go drinking with their bosses on a Friday night is not accurate (aka hoesik). In fact, Samsung implemented the "1-1-9 rule" (one location, one drink, 9pm cutoff) and later "1-1-2 rule" (2 hour dinner limit) to restrict mandatory drinking.
- Employees uses their parental leave all the time and in fact, pair it with their government provided parental leave to extend their time away. The con is when they return from parental leave, they sometimes have to find another org to work within at Samsung which means starting over.
- You are correct that despite the surge in birth rates in 2024 - 2025 which is really happened post Covid, that the overall population is still decreasing.
- Why people do not have children in Korea is mostly because women are forced to choose either career or family, while men must be breadwinners. Obviously there are other reasons why (cost of living, hagwon expenses, women often times have to do most of the childcaring work, etc.).

If you are fired, you can still file for COBRA and unemployment insurance benefits so as the reason you were fired was not because of illegal activities.

And he chose the latter.

https://www.theverge.com/news/631024/samsung-is-facing-a-do-or-die-survival-issue

I worked at US Web briefly right around the time they signed their first 10 affiliates and were starting to get picked up in the press. This article is absolutely correct about Mr Joe Cheese, er Firmage, in that he barely interacted with people, running in at the last moment, speaking ever so eloquently (especially over pronouncing the word "what"), and then leaving in an instant all for the sake of creating a dramatic effect. He surrounded himself with former Novell execs who were all yes men and would constantly kiss Joe's ass, except for perhaps the smartest man in the room, the CTO Sheldon Laube, who sometimes seemed annoyed with Joe, and unfortunately, all those yes men likely enabled Joe to become the conman he is today.

i thought that Apple's multitouch was acquired from Fingerworks, the company they bought back in 2005?

Are you referring to Sleepify by Vulfpeck? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepify

This article may be about this process where bands are uploaded so that they can be played back for the royalties.