Geoffrey Cain

Cain attended The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he received his BA. His studies continued in London, where he received an MA with distinction from the School of Oriental and African Studies. He was also a Fulbright scholar in Vietnam.{{cite web|title=Geoffrey Cain bio|url=https://www.pri.org/people/geoffrey-cain|publisher=Public Radio International}}

Cain began his career as a journalist in Asia, working predominantly in Vietnam and Cambodia. From 2008 onwards, he worked for The Economist.{{cite news|title=Hallyu, yeah!|url=https://www.economist.com/node/15385735|newspaper=The Economist|date=January 25, 2010}}{{cite news|title=Blessing or curse?|url=https://www.economist.com/node/13184945 |newspaper=The Economist|date=February 26, 2009}}

Cain settled in South Korea in 2009 as a writer for Time, covering politics, business and culture in North and South Korea. In 2015, he took a train across North Korea, visiting Pyongyang and remote places in the north of the country.{{cite web|title=Episode 41: Traveling North Korea with Geoffrey Cain|url=https://talktravelasia.com/2016/03/16/episode-41-traveling-north-korea-with-geoffrey-cain/|publisher=Talk Travel Asia|date=March 16, 2016}} His train journey received coverage in a number of newspapers in the west, including The Telegraph.{{cite news|last1=Rajesh|first1=Monisha|title=The rail North Korea: An eye-opening train journey through the secretive state |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/north-korea/articles/taking-the-train-through-north-korea/|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=May 12, 2016}}

In 2012, he joined GlobalPost where he was the Senior Correspondent for Japan and Korea.{{cite web|title=Geoffrey Cain at the GlobalPost|url=https://www.pri.org/people/geoffrey-cain|publisher=Public Radio International}}

From 2014 onwards, Cain became engaged in a dispute with the Cambodian government following a series of reports he published in 2014 on labor crackdowns in the country.{{cite web|last1=Ponniah|first1=Kevin|title=Fears over human rights in Cambodia as crackdown on protests continues|url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/feb/11/cambodia-human-rights-crackdown-protests|work=The Guardian|date=February 11, 2014}} His work on the subject led Cain to be a finalist for the Society of Publishers in Asia

(SOPA) award.{{cite web|title=SOPA Announces 2014 Awards for Editorial Excellence Finalists|url=https://www.sopasia.com/2014/05/sopa-announces-2014-awards-for-editorial-excellence-finalists/|publisher=Society of Publishers in Asia|date=May 23, 2014}}

In August 2017, he was accused of spying on Cambodia by news media aligned with Prime Minister Hun Sen and collaborating with the opposition party, Cambodia National Rescue Party.{{cite web|title=Cambodia accuses American journalist of espionage|url=https://cpj.org/2017/08/cambodia-accuses-american-journalist-of-espionage.php|publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists|date=August 31, 2017}} Cain flatly denied the claims, stating he knew Samathida Kem, the opposition leader's daughter, from University in the United States.{{cite web|last1=Dunbar|first1=Jon|title=Cambodia accuses US journalist of espionage, overthrowing Park Geun-hye|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2017/09/120_235813.html|work=The Korea Times|date=September 1, 2017}}

In November 2017, he wrote an article for The Nation, speaking about Kem Sokha's arrest in September of that year.{{cite magazine|last1=Cain|first1=Geoffrey|title=Fake News and the Death of Democracy in Cambodia|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/fake-news-and-the-death-of-democracy-in-cambodia/|magazine=The Nation|date=November 21, 2017}} By this point, the opposition leader had been charged with treason by the ruling party of Cambodia.{{cite news|last1=Cochrane|first1=Liam|title=Australian speech the key 'treason' evidence against Cambodian opposition leader|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-06/australian-speech-evidence-of-treason-against-cambodia-kem-sokha/8876044|work=ABC News|date=September 6, 2017}}

During the same period, Cain reported on the alleged growing backlash in South Korea against the power of a number of large family-owned businesses, known as the chaebol. These included corporations such as Samsung, Hyundai and LG. He regularly commented in the media and wrote a number of articles on the subject of Samsung's involvement in the 2016 South Korean political scandal.{{cite web|last1=Kwaak|first1=Jeyup S.|title=Mastermind or Naïf? Samsung Heir's Fate Hinges on the Question |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/business/samsung-jay-lee-trial-lee-jae-yong.html|work=The New York Times|date=August 23, 2017}} After Lee Jae-yong was arrested as part of a bribery scandal linked to a controversial 2015 merger,{{cite web|last1=Mozur|first1=Paul|title=Political Crisis Engulfs Samsung, a Firm Tied to South Korea's Success|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/business/lee-jae-yong-samsung.html|work=The New York Times|date=January 16, 2017}} and then was released from prison in February 2018 when a court reduced but upheld his bribery conviction, Cain frequently spoke about South Korea's alleged leniency on white collar crime.

Cain served as an advisor to the United States House Foreign Affairs Committee, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a senior fellow for advanced critical emerging technologies at Lincoln Network, a non-profit organization and a tech-policy think-tank.{{cite news |last1=Staff |title=Geoffrey Cain |url=https://www.techcongress.io/geoffrey-cain?fbclid=IwAR2_Dso3r_5ieRUAAfwZZzAqAoHQZvacxbRzzTWfTCPAHflJAw79m_Y9zFY |work=TechCongress}}{{cite web |last1=Staff |title=Lincoln Team |url=https://lincolnpolicy.org/lincoln-staff/?fbclid=IwAR1HzzsOMp9_Zfi9_oyudO0oyLglRPIM79ag2bOIJgRljzgOkMKoLwolCIw |website=Lincoln Policy}}

• The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future (PublicAffairs, 2021){{Cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-5417-5703-5|title = Nonfiction Book Review: The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain. PublicAffairs, $29 (304p) ISBN 978-1-5417-5703-5}}
• Samsung Rising{{Cite book|last=Cain|first=Geoffrey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fTgLDQAAQBAJ|title=Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech|date=2020-03-17|publisher=Crown|isbn=978-1-101-90726-9|language=en}}

Cain has written a book, Samsung Rising, due out from Crown.{{cite news|last1=Harris|first1=Bryan|title=Samsung's success fails to mask fears over its image|url=https://www.ft.com/content/ae135ad8-049a-11e8-9650-9c0ad2d7c5b5|work=Financial Times|date=January 31, 2018}}{{cite web|last1=Sang-Hun|first1=Choe |title=Samsung Bribery Scandal Threatens South Korea Success Story|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/business/south-korea-samsung-bribery-lee.html|work=The New York Times|date=March 4, 2017}}{{cite web|last1=Pham|first1=Sherisse|title=What next for Samsung as chief's 'trial of the century' begins|url=https://money.cnn.com/2017/03/09/investing/samsung-jay-lee-next-steps-chaebol/index.html|publisher=CNN|date=March 9, 2017}} The book charts the rise of Samsung and its influence on global technology industries and South Korea's politics and culture.{{cite web|title=American journalist seeks to pull back the curtain on 'Samsung Empire'|url=http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_business/825391.html|work=The Hankyoreh|date=December 28, 2017}} This became more topical following the arrest and sentencing of Lee Jae-yong at Samsung. Cain argues Samsung's alleged influence and power can be seen when Lee walked free and received a suspended sentence.{{cite web|last1=Pham|first1=Sherisse|title=Samsung chief walks free after prison sentence suspended|url=https://money.cnn.com/2018/02/05/technology/samsung-jay-y-lee-trial-verdict/index.html|publisher=CNN|date=February 5, 2018}}

According to The Financial Times, Geoffrey Cain does his material proud [and] marshals [it] around episodes and milestones. This allows for a few cliffhanger chapter endings, while also enabling the characters’ foibles to shine through.{{cite news |last1=Staff |title=FT Business book of the year award |url=https://ig.ft.com/sites/business-book-award/books/2020/longlist/samsung-rising-by-geoffrey-cain/?fbclid=IwAR2mjaCGBV7t78nmN-SDiqdLQhsT3W7Tj_49LGFw_fXkpLQGZQCbgN9lL1U |work=The Financial Times}}

Cain wrote and released the book, The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future, in 2022.{{cite news |last1=Staff |title=Understanding China's brutal treatment of Uyghur Muslims through two nonfiction books|url=https://www.npr.org/2022/05/12/1098641458/understanding-chinas-brutal-treatment-of-uyghur-muslims-through-two-nonfiction-b?fbclid=IwAR0Z8MAhBYGHVsucS_6-7LBwwfm5n1DZPX6CQWXVEuNjALlbL0H2fNTHqi0 |work=NPR |date=May 20, 2022}} According to a Kirkus starred review, the book is “A prescient, alarming work on the overreach of technology and state power.”{{cite news |title=The Perfect Police State |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/geoffrey-cain/the-perfect-police-state/ |work=Kirkus Reviews}}

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