Commuters taking a subway home after work at Sungsu station in Seoul, South Korea. — ©2024 The New York Times Company
“BACK in the day,” said Lim Hyung-kyu, a retired Samsung Electronics executive now in his 70s, “my weeks were Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Friday, Friday.”
Lim joined Samsung, South Korea’s largest company, in 1976 and rose through the ranks to chief technology officer.
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