No more jobs for Kim Yong-chul.
Anyone ever dream of becoming a hero? Slaying that fiery dragon, saving that damsel in distress, being praised and adored by everyone around you? Former Samsung employee Kim Yong-chul thought so. He surely killed the beast, but words of congratulations did not follow in the least.
Kim Yong-chul, an ex-employee of the well-known Korean electronics company Samsung, now can’t find jobs for heroically destroying a corrupt giant in power, Lee Kun-hee. See, in Korean culture, loyalty is viewed as one of the top traits one must have within any organization, whether it is a corporation or a family. When a brother commits a crime, the culture is developed so that they protect the accused and deny that any such act ever even happened. If this connection is severed, such as how Kim valiantly demonstrated, it doesn’t matter to East-Asian companies that his actions were ethically correct; they only care of how ballsy he was and how that might affect their own balance of power.
Although what Kim did was morally correct, the only reward he received was the inability to find another job. In a world where doing the just thing only receives punishment, what is the right thing to do?