on Samsung Design’s website, at http://design.samsung.com/.the forces of “digital convergence”: Michell, Samsung Electronics and the Struggle
for Leadership, p. 35.
“design scrapbook”: Hyunhu Jang, “Samsung’s ‘Design Revolution’ Started in 1996
with Sony, Not Apple,” The Verge, August 31, 2012,
https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/31/3273695/samsungs-design-revolution-
started-in-1996-with-sony-not-apple.
“Apple Computer realized that their goal”: Hyunhu Jang, “Samsung’s ‘Design
Revolution’ Started in 1996 with Sony, Not Apple.”
Bruce convinced Samsung to hire: Bill Breen, “The Seoul of Design,” Fast
Company, December 1, 2005, https://www.fastcompany.com/54877/seoul-
design.
“I decided to use”: Tom Hardy, interview by the author, May 23, 2017.
“Balance of Reason and Feeling”: Breen, “Seoul of Design.”
set up design centers: “Samsung Design Innovation Center,” Global Design Studio
Series #1, undated, http://design.samsung.com/global/m/contents/sdic/.
“simplicity/feeling”: Breen, “Seoul of Design.”
developed Samsung’s first “smart home”: Former Samsung designer, interview by
the author, January 5, 2017.
Lee Min-hyouk, who later designed: Youngjin Yoo and Kyungmook Kim, “How
Samsung Became a Design Powerhouse,” Harvard Business Review,
September 2015, https://hbr.org/2015/09/how-samsung-became-a-design-
powerhouse.
“I called it the I-Phone”: Ted Shin, interview by the author, February 3, 2017. Ted
Shin’s blueprints and photographs of the I-Phone are in the author’s
possession.
“Miho and I were becoming disliked”: Gordon Bruce, email message to the author,
February 16, 2017.
Miky invested $300 million: Pollack, “Unlikely Credits for a Korean Movie
Mogul.”
But Samsung and CJ were completing: Kim Hee-jung, “Lee Jae-hyun’s Samsung
Complex,” Business Post, May 12, 2014, http://www.businesspost.co.kr/BP?
command=naver&num=1856. This source is in Korean. The author’s
researcher translated the title and the quoted text into English.
“was like slapping the chairman”: Gordon Bruce, email message to the author,
February 4, 2017.
close its struggling film company: Inkyu Kang, “The Political Economy of Idols,” in
K-pop: The International Rise of the Korean Music Industry, ed. Jungbong Choi
and Roald Maliangkay (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2014).