Worst case scenario, they can just rebrand themselves.
Samsung does a lot of things: Cars, phones, refrigerators, TVs, life insurance... it's pretty diversified, so if there's a Samsung washing machine recall, I don't think that Koreans will cancel their life insurance policies.
Did you know Kenmore washing machines are actually LG? I didn't either until now... it's all too easy to just do a rebrand or latch onto somebody else's as a supplier, if things go nuclear.
To say nothing of calling in the emergency PR salvaging operation (like Lenovo did just recently with their BIOS update that locked out Linux on its consumer ultrabooks -- just have the press deflect blame on Intel for not jumping through onerous hoops to support Lenovo's crazy single-drive RAID scheme on Linux, but I digress).
Samsung does a lot of things: Cars, phones, refrigerators, TVs, life insurance... it's pretty diversified, so if there's a Samsung washing machine recall, I don't think that Koreans will cancel their life insurance policies.
Did you know Kenmore washing machines are actually LG? I didn't either until now... it's all too easy to just do a rebrand or latch onto somebody else's as a supplier, if things go nuclear.
To say nothing of calling in the emergency PR salvaging operation (like Lenovo did just recently with their BIOS update that locked out Linux on its consumer ultrabooks -- just have the press deflect blame on Intel for not jumping through onerous hoops to support Lenovo's crazy single-drive RAID scheme on Linux, but I digress).