December 28, 2016. A sales figure of “more than six million units” is
confirmed at Samsung’s history museum in its Suwon headquarters, where the
author saw the phone and its description on display.
“You buy LG”: Peter Skarzynski, interview by the author, December 28, 2016.
getting drunk with business partners: “Korea Cracks Down on Bribes in Brothels,”
The Economist, October 15, 2016, https://www.economist.com/asia/2016/10/
15/korea-cracks-down-on-bribes-in-brothels.
“I know we can’t stop all of this”: Peter Skarzynski, interview by the author,
December 28, 2016.
Samsung settled the lawsuit: Wojtek Dabrowski, “RIM and Samsung Settle Suit
over BlackJack Device,” Reuters, February 8, 2007, https://www.reuters.com/
article/idUSN0840240420070208.
renamed the phone “Jack”: Matt Buchanan, “Samsung Jack Completes BlackJack
Windows Mobile Trilogy for $99,” Gizmodo, May 14, 2009,
https://gizmodo.com/samsung-jack-completes-blackjack-windows-mobile-
trilogy-5253918.
14: SONY WARS
“I will kill you”: Ihlwan Moon, “The Samsung Way,” BusinessWeek, October 15,
2003, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2003-06-15/the-samsung-
way.
“kimchi-eating American”: Donald MacIntyre, “Eric Kim,” Time, November 24,
2002, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,393732,00.html.
“I’m Korean”: Eric Kim, interview by the author, April 26, 2015.
“Eric was an engineer”: Five former Samsung executives, interviews by the author,
March 2014–January 2017.
Before Samsung, he’d been: Intel Corporation,“Intel Executive Biography: Eric B.
Kim,” https://web.archive.org/web/20061202050519/http://www.intel.com/
pressroom/kits/bios/kim.htm.
“Now, the CEO wanted me”: Eric Kim, interview by the author, April 26, 2015.
Samsung had fifty-five advertising agencies: Seung-Joo Lee and Boon-Young Lee,
“Case Study of Samsung’s Mobile Phone Business” (KDI School of Public
Policy & Management Paper No. 04-11, May 2004), https://ssrn.com/
abstract=556923.
“Eric wanted to start fresh”: Thomas Rhee, interview by the author, May 8, 2017.
Kim and his new marketing office: Eric Kim, interview by the author, April 26,
2015.
“K.T. hated his guts”: Peter Skarzynski, interview by the author, December 28,
