December 18, 2018
Originally published in Forbes
Hyundai Heir Uses Year-End Exec Shuffle To Cement Power
The year-end executive shuffle is an annual event at South Korea’s mighty family-owned conglomerates, or chaebol. Samsung, Hyundai Motor, LG, SK and others retire, promote and reassign their executives in order to read more
December 26, 2017
Frank Ahrens
Originally published in 100 Days in Appalachia
When President Trump came this close to beginning the U.S. withdrawal from its free-trade agreement with South Korea in September, jobs in Wellsburg, W.Va., were suddenly put at jeopardy. How could that be?
When heavy industry began leaving West Virginia, and Appalachia, for foreign shores, businesses that read more