Samsung, Media Empire and Family

This book studies media conglomerates owning multiple media holdings under centralized ownership within and across media markets, arguing that Asian capitalists utilize both a market-oriented ideology and family connections to build their media empires with multiple media holdings, thereby creating cultural conglomerates that exercise corporate censorship over media markets. The author focuses his analysis on the international business giant, Samsung, and its relative media companies in the Republic of Korea. He examines how media owners use family connections within their media corporate structures and who the major beneficiaries of the changes to the media market structures are.