https://www.vox.com/2014/1/29/11622840/after-google-pressure-samsung-
will-dial-back-android-tweaks-homegrown.
“An engagement ring”: Brad Stone, Sam King, and Ian King, “Summer of Samsung:
A Corruption Scandal, a Political Firestorm—and a Record Profit,”
Bloomberg Businessweek, June 27, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/
features/2017-07-27/summer-of-samsung-a-corruption-scandal-a-political-
firestorm-and-a-record-profit.
T.J. recalls a Google executive: T.J. Kang, interview by the author, March 27, 2016.
Google publicly announced the sale: Kelly, “How Google Used Motorola to Smack
Down Samsung—Twice.” Even though Google oversees the design and
development of the Nexus phone, placing Google in competition with
Samsung’s hardware, the Nexus is manufactured by original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs). Google’s focus remains software, its search engine,
and the Android operating system.
“G.S. Choi and Jay Y. Lee did not”: T.J. Kang, interview by the author, March 27,
2016.
Samsung executives had a gnawing fear: Four former Samsung executives,
interviews by the author, January 2016–February 2017.
“We have to try”: T.J. Kang, interview by the author, March 27, 2016.
“The story of 1993”: Cho Kwi-dong, “Former Samsung Adviser Fukuda, ‘Time for
Samsung to Forget About New Management and Reset,’ ” Chosun Ilbo, June
11, 2015, http://biz.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2015/06/11/
2015061101667.html. This source is in Korean. The author’s researcher
translated the title and the quoted text into English.
“I cannot protect you guys anymore”: T.J. Kang, interview by the author, March 27,
2016.
In May 2014, Chairman Lee suffered: In-Soo Nam, “Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-
hee Regains Consciousness,” The Wall Street Journal, May 25, 2014,
https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/05/25/samsung-chairman-lee-kun-hee-
regains-consciousness/.
But then the chairman: Stone, King, and King, “Summer of Samsung.”
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inheritance tax that could reach: Se Young Lee, “For Samsung Heirs, Little Choice
but to Grin and Bear Likely $6 Billion Tax Bill,” Reuters, June 5, 2014,
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-samsung-group-succession-tax/for-
samsung-heirs-little-choice-but-to-grin-and-bear-likely-6-billion-tax-bill-
idUSKBN0EG2SC20140605.
“To put that in perspective”: Ibid.
