AMS — English Reports
AMS is a Korean structural-analysis outlet that breaks money and power into their component parts — decision-makers, cash flows, incentive structures. This page collects everything published in English: full English editions of our flagship Korean reports, plus original English-language deep dives on international financial scandals and collapses. Every claim is tagged FACT / INFERENCE / SPECULATION with sources cited inline.
Flagship Korea reports — English editions
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Chaebol Myth Anatomy
Who really built Korea's economy — the chaebols, or ordinary Koreans? A structural teardown.
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KFA Cartel Anatomy
Why South Korea benched its own Golden Boot winner — 13 tabs, 130+ sources on Korean football politics.
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K-Pop Money Anatomy
Idol debt contracts, fandom exploitation, POB albums — who actually gets paid from what BTS earns.
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Esports Cartel Anatomy
From "gaming = drugs" to Faker — how Korea criminalized, then monetized, its own national sport.
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Suicide Rate Anatomy
Why does a country that looks this good have the OECD's highest suicide rate?
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Same Shape, Different Industry
Five Korean cartels, one repeating template — football association, conglomerates, esports.
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Why Is Buying Anything Online in Korea So Painful?
Korea's real-name verification laws, explained for people who just wanted to buy a T-shirt.
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The 1% Trick
How Korean chaebol families control empires they barely own — circular shareholding, explained simply.
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Platform Help Center — Korea Edition
Netflix, Airbnb, Uber, Spotify — FAQs plus the actual policy reasoning behind them.
International scandal & collapse case studies
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FTX — The $8B Customer Fund Diversion
Sam Bankman-Fried's customer fund diversion. 25-year sentence confirmed, appeal denied.
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Wirecard — €1.9B That Was Never There
German fintech accounting fraud. COO still a fugitive, suspected Russian intelligence ties.
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Theranos — A Blood Test That Didn't Work
$9B valuation on technology that never worked. Elizabeth Holmes, 11-year sentence confirmed.
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Purdue Pharma — The Bankruptcy Shield
$7.4B Sackler settlement, Supreme Court denies liability shield, opioid crisis financial engineering.
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FIFA 2015 — The Zurich Hotel Raid
$150M in bribes — the same structural pattern documented in the KFA cartel report.
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1MDB — The $4.5B Heist
Goldman Sachs fined $2.9B, Malaysian PM Najib Razak ousted.
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Odebrecht — Bribery as a Business Unit
$788M in bribes across 12 Latin American countries, four former Peruvian presidents implicated.
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Lebanon — A Central Bank Ponzi Scheme
20% central bank interest rates, currency down 98%, depositor withdrawals capped near $400.
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Sri Lanka — Citizens Toppled a Government
The country's first sovereign default since independence. The president fled to the Maldives.
Most of AMS is published in Korean, covering Korean corporate, political, and financial structures in depth. This English section is a curated subset — for the full Korean catalog, switch to the Korean homepage.