for Pain,” The New York Times, November 27, 1997,
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/27/business/international-business-
samsung-cuts-jobs-and-pay-as-koreans-brace-for-pain.html.
“Workers can no longer count on”: Ihlwan Moon and Brian Bemmer, “Samsung: A
Korean Giant Confronts the Crisis,” BusinessWeek, March 23, 1998, p. 18.
Koreans abandoned the expectation: “The Notion of Lifetime Employment Has
Crumbled,” Maeil Business Newspaper, March 24, 1998,
https://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?
articleId=1998032400099147001. This source is in Korean. The author’s
researcher translated the title and the quoted text into English.
“Think about it this way”: Hwang Young-key, interview by the author, June 5, 2014.
13: MY BOSS THE SHIT KICKER
“What do you need to double”: Peter Skarzynski, interview by the author,
December 28, 2016.
where Samsung occupied four floors: Dan Shieder and Jennifer Rampey, “Samsung
Looks at Richardson,” Dallas Business Journal, October 7, 1996,
https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/1996/10/07/story1.html.
the South Korean government had finished: In-soo Han, “Success of CDMA
Telecommunications Technology in Korea: The Role of the Mobile Triangle,”
in Innovation and Technology in Korea: Challenges of a Newly Advanced
Economy, ed. Jörg Malich and Werner Pascha (Heidelberg, Germany: Physica
Verlag, January 2007), p. 287.
Sprint was going to be: Mike Mills, “Group Takes Control of Sprint Spectrum,” The
Washington Post, January 7, 1998, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/
business/1998/01/07/group-takes-control-of-sprint-spectrum/9ec5bdfc-7b4e-
4159-88d6-fd45cb757a20/.
“I need a cheap Asian company”: Peter Skarzynski, interview by the author,
December 28, 2016.
$600 million deal to sell 1.7 million: “Samsung Electronics to Export PCS Units to
the U.S. in $600 Million Deal,” Dong-A Ilbo, September 21, 1996,
https://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?
articleId=1996092100209108002. This source is in Korean. The author’s
researcher translated the title and the quoted text into English.
the launch went forward as planned: Reily Gregson, “Samsung, Sprint Debut
CDMA Dual-Band Internet Phone,” RCRWireless News, September 27, 1999,
https://www.rcrwireless.com/19990927/archived-articles/samsung-sprint-
debut-cdma-dual-band-internet-phone.
“The SCH-3500 became the flagship”: Peter Skarzynski, interview by the author,
