Most of the cameras that you are using are manufacturing by large conglomerates.
Or some conglomerate support and protect actual designer and manufacturer.
Like it, or not, 21th is the century of huge conglomerates and corporations.

It is also interesting that 1997 crisis, first amongs the modern wave) had one clear main target - Korean chaebals (among other Asian emerging markets).
And in reality many of them suffered like Daewoo(more) and Hyundai(less). But most survived, and I hope, will keep specifics uncommon to Western democratic(tm) business approaches.

In liberal papers (and many Korean also) it is common place to paint them with dirt.
Talk about absence of big profits, corruption.
Taking in consideration that now is the time of large corporations wars, sometimes very complex ones, ones that are tricky to understand, it is mostly proparanda weapons.
Yet, it is very interesting to look at them in more details.
Especially considering that in upcoming years they'll clear the path from virtual PR greations such as Apple, and will take their market share. In the future posts I'l try to talk about conglomerates in more details.