He studied East Asian history: Miyoung Kim, “Jay Lee, Samsung’s Unassuming
Heir Apparent,” Reuters, December 5, 2012, https://www.reuters.com/article/
us-samsung-lee-newsmaker/jay-lee-samsungs-unassuming-heir-apparent-
idUSBRE8B40A220121205.
There he wrote his thesis: Yoon Hee-seok, “The Warning Vice Chairman Lee Jae-
yong Delivered About Manufacturing 20 Years Ago,” Electronic Time,
September 22, 2015, http://www.etnews.com/20150918000274. This source is
in Korean. The author’s researcher translated the title and the quoted text into
English.
he married (and later divorced): Park Hyeon-cheol and Kim Young-hee, “Lee Jae-
yong: Lim Sae-ryung Mutual Divorce,” Hankyoreh, February 18, 2009,
http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/society/society_general/339527.html. This source is
in Korean. The author’s researcher translated the title and the quoted text into
English.
without completing his doctorate: “Jay Y. Lee,” Forbes, undated,
https://www.forbes.com/profile/jay-y-lee/#2741dc6e24a2.
“He was not involved”: Nam S. Lee, interview by the author, November 13, 2015.
“Jay Y. Lee was eager to participate”: Kim Yong-chul, Thinking of Samsung (Seoul,
South Korea: Social Commentary, 2010), pp. 201–4.
Jay became the chief shareholder: Huh In-jung, “e-Samsung Owner Explains
Concept,” Chosun Ilbo (English edition), July 11, 2000,
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2000/07/11/
2000071161386.html.
“But a Samsung style of management”: Kim, Thinking of Samsung, p. 201.
Shareholders cried foul: Samsung SDI, “Results for First Quarter of 2001” (letter to
shareholders), April 24, 2001.
e-Samsung was shut down: Lim Ju-young, Ahn Hee, Lee Han-seung, “Special
Prosecutors’ ‘e-Samsung’ Case: 28 Including Senior Vice President Lee Jae-
yong Found Not Guilty,” Yonhap News Agency, March 13, 2008,
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20080313108700004. This source is in
Korean. The author’s researcher translated the title and the quoted text into
English.
Samsung ordered nine Samsung affiliates: Kim Rahn, “Lee Jae-yong Cleared of e-
Samsung Allegations,” The Korea Times, March 13, 2008,
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/07/113_20666.html.
Merrill Lynch claimed that: Park Soon-bin, “Chaebol Ventures’ Blind-eye
Management,” Hankyoreh, April 3, 2001, http://h21.hani.co.kr/arti/economy/
economy_general/2112.html. This source is in Korean. The author’s
researcher translated the title and the quoted text into English.
“I dispatched two”: Kim, Thinking of Samsung, p. 204.