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Striking To Death?
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Sam Lee is remarkably composed for a guy who is being pelted in effigy with water bombs. The head of Nestl's business in South Korea is safe in his 15th-floor office in a Seoul high-rise. But on the street below, hundreds of angry employees bay for his blood. They're with Nestl's union, and they blame him for cost-cutting measures they say will eliminate their jobs. A pudgy agitator with a microphone rants, "Sam Lee helped these Western bastards sell their coffee in Korea. Now look at what he's doing to us!" A crude portrait of Lee, trimmed with black ribbons to...