mod=news&act=articleView&idxno=1838. The article is a round-up of what
other media outlets were publishing on Kim Yong-chul. The original articles
cited in this article appear to have been taken down and are no longer
available online. The article quotes the conservative Chosun Ilbo as calling
Kim Yong-chul a “traitor,” and the Dong-A Ilbo as calling him “no different
than a gigolo.” This source is in Korean. The author’s researcher translated the
headline and text into English.
One angry protester: Photograph in the author’s possession. More information on
the Korean Parents Federation is at Lee Sang-hak, “Conservative Group
Reproaching Lawyer Kim Yong-chul and Catholic Priests Association for
Justice,” Yonhap News Agency, April 23, 2008. The article is in Korean. The
author’s researcher translated the headline and text into English.
indicted Chairman Lee: Choe Sang-hun, “Samsung’s Chairman Is Indicted for Tax
Evasion in Corruption Case,” The New York Times, April 17, 2008,
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/business/worldbusiness/17iht-
samsung.4.12107507.html.
The chairman denied the allegations: Lee Hae-seong, “ ‘Everything Was Due to My
Inattention’...Chairman Lee Kun-hee Returns Home After 11 Hours of
Questioning by Samsung Special Prosecutors,” Korea Economic Daily, April 5,
2008, https://www.hankyung.com/society/article/2008040413961. This source
is in Korean. The author’s researcher translated the title and the quoted text
into English.
Prosecutors didn’t pursue the bribery charge: Choe, “Samsung’s Chairman Is
Indicted.”
“I sincerely apologize”: “Samsung Chairman Steps Down,” CNNMoney, April 22,
2008, https://money.cnn.com/2008/04/22/news/international/
samsung_resignation/index.htm. The full press conference is shown on video
at Associated Press,“Samsung Chairman Says He Will Resign to Take
Responsibility for Scandal,” posted by YouTube user AP Archive on April 22,
2008, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_gDCUP0y2g.
“It grieves me”: “Samsung Chairman Steps Down,” CNN, April 22, 2008,
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/22/
samsung.chairman.resignation/index.html?eref=edition.
“It was just a show”: Kim Yong-chul, interview by the author, September 24, 2015.
Nine others were implicated: “Samsung Chairman Indicted,” Dong-A Ilbo, April 18,
2008, http://www.donga.com/en/article/all/20080418/258134/1/Samsung-
Chairman-Indicted.
“I apologize for causing concern”: “Former Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee’s Trial
Gets Underway,” Hankyoreh, June 13, 2008, http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/
english_edition/e_national/293086.html.
Two months later a Seoul: Choe Sang-hun, “Former Samsung Chief Is Convicted,”