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Is the reason that Samsung makes their smartphones in Korea is probably due to the fact that their supply chain already exists in Korea. Since they manufacture all of their products in Korea it stands to reason that moving somewhere else has a much deeper cost than just labor.

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Samsung doesn't have to move plants to China to benefit from the lower wages, they can simply contract Foxconn to assemble the devices. And they do, according to this NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-i...

The ExtremeTech article makes a lot of calculations based on the assumption that Samsung assembles the Galaxy S3 itself, but they don't provide any evidence of that.

The Reuters article cites a source (a Korean newspaper) saying that the S3s are being made at Samsung's South Korea smartphone factory (which is in Gumi, I think).

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