The New York Times, July 17, 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/
business/worldbusiness/17samsung.html.
“I am sorry”: Rhee So-eui, “Ex–Samsung Chief Given 3-Year Suspended Jail
Term,” Reuters, July 16, 2008, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-samsung-
sentence/ex-samsung-chief-given-3-year-suspended-jail-term-
idUSSEF00017220080716.
judge commuted his sentence: Choe, “Former Samsung Chief Is Convicted.”
felt little sense of triumph: Kim Yong-chul, interview by the author, September 24,
2015.
“Samsung X-File”: Roh Hoe-chan, interview by the author, September 23, 2015.
“Ah, and will there be any”: Kim Seung-wook. “The National Intelligence Service
‘X-file Incident’ That Spanned Eight Years,” Yonhap News Agency, February
14, 2013, https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20130214171400004. The
transcript was also recounted by Roh Hoe-chan in our interview.
“Our conclusions were groundbreaking”: Roh Hoe-chan, interview by the author,
September 23, 2015.
Texas’s Anderson Cancer Center: Kim Sung-jin, “Samsung Chairman Forecast to
Extend Sojourn in US,” The Korea Times, September 21, 2005,
http://www.koreatimes.com/article/20050921/270242.
“You’re on the list”: Roh Hoe-chan, interview by the author, September 23, 2015. A
partial video of one of these hearings (without the segment involving the
justice minister) is at https://news.sbs.co.kr/news/endPage.do?
news_id=N1000010673.
The vice minister resigned: Roh Hoe-chan, interview by the author, September 23,
- More information is at Ko Woong-seok, “Kim Sang-hee, Vice Justice
Minister, Tenders Resignation,” Yonhap News Agency, syndicated by Maeil
Business Newspaper, August 18, 2005, https://www.mk.co.kr/news/home/
view/2005/08/305992/. This article is in Korean.
Chairman Lee’s brother-in-law: Heo Won-soon, “Ambassador Hong Brought Down
by X-file Scandal...Shortest Serving U.S. Ambassador at Five Months and
Three Days,” Korea Economic Daily, July 26, 2005,
https://www.hankyung.com/politics/article/2005072601461. This source is in
Korean. The author’s researcher translated the title and the quoted text into
English.
Prosecutors opened an investigation: “Court Finds Roh Hoe-chan Not Guilty in
‘Samsung X-file’ Disclosure Case,” Hankyoreh, December 5, 2009,
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/391645.html.
“Roh hoe-chan...we’re going to have”: Roh Hoe-chan, interview by the author,
September 23, 2015.
violation of the country’s anti-wiretapping law: “ ‘X-file’ Roh Hoe-chan Found