for Christmas,” The Korea Times, December 25, 2008. The article is no longer
available online. A copy of it is in the author’s possession.
“Samsung is really upset”: Michael Breen, interview by the author, November 17,
2010.
The newspaper agreed to retract: “Correction,” The Korea Times, January 29, 2010,
http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/phone/news/view.jsp?req_newsidx=59927.
“Did you research and check”: Michael Breen, interview by the author, November
17, 2010. Breen has an account of the lawsuit in his book, The New Koreans:
The Story of a Nation (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2017), pp. 231–33.
“Under Korean law...if somebody takes”: Michael Breen, interview by the author,
November 17, 2010. More information is available in Breen, New Koreans,
pp. 231–33.
The ambassador called Samsung CEO: Breen, New Koreans, pp. 231–33.
“Michael Breen Who ‘Mocked’ Korea”: Choi Jeong-yup, “Michael Breen ‘Mocked’
Korea, ‘Did He Even Apologize?’ ” EBN, May 14, 2010, http://www.ebn.co.kr/
news/view/437428. This source is in Korean. The author’s researcher
translated the title and the quoted text into English.
“The reason I’m being sued”: John Glionna, “Samsung Doesn’t Find Satirical Spoof
Amusing,” Los Angeles Times, May 10, 2010, https://www.latimes.com/
archives/la-xpm-2010-may-10-la-fg-korea-samsung-20100510-story.html.
“As Samsung has withdrawn”: Michael Breen, interview by the author, November
17, 2010.
published a bestselling memoir: Kim Yong-chul, Thinking of Samsung (Seoul:
Social Commentary, 2010).
“One newspaper reported on its popularity”: Choe, “Book on Samsung Divides
Korea.”
front-page apology: “We Will Be Strict in Our Reporting on Conglomerates,”
Kyunghyang Shinmun, February 23, 2010, http://m.khan.co.kr/view.html?
art_id=201002231826025. This source is in Korean. The author’s researcher
translated the title and the quoted text into English.
“But I wouldn’t say”: Kim Yong-chul, interview by the author, September 24, 2015.
“Mr. Lee’s wisdom and experience”: “Lee Kun-hee Reinstated as Samsung
Electronics Chairman,” Hankyoreh, March 25, 2010, http://english.hani.co.kr/
arti/english_edition/e_business/412228.html.
“Vision 2020”: “The Next Big Bet,” The Economist, October 1, 2011,
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2011/10/01/the-next-big-bet.
Some questioned its feasibility: Jonathan Cheng, “Samsung’s Outlook for Vision
2020 Gets Blurry,” The Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2015,
https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/29/samsungs-outlook-for-vision-2020-
gets-blurry/.