SEOUL—For Samsung Electronics Co., the launch this week of a new smartphone and a court ruling for its detained de facto leader may offer closure and clarity for a company rocked by two scandals over the past year. Samsung will unveil the Galaxy Note 8 on Wednesday in New York, releasing what it hopes will be a bounceback version of a flagship device that the South Korean firm had to recall last year. Then, on Friday, a South...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 19, 2017 12:00 UTC