https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/02/business/dealbook/court-rejects-
investors-move-to-disrupt-samsung-merger.html.
On July 3 Elliott appealed: Agence France-Presse, “US Fund Elliott Files Appeal
Against Samsung Merger Ruling,” July 3, 2015, https://www.aaj.tv/2015/07/
us-fund-elliott-files-appeal-against-samsung-merger-ruling/ [inactive].
more than a hundred newspapers: “Amid Crisis, Samsung C&T Makes Clear Its
Intention to Merge...Advertising Extensively,” Yonhap News Agency, July
13, 2015. Recordings of Samsung’s TV spots are in the author’s possession.
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20150713028100003. This source is in
Korean. The author’s researcher translated the headline and text into English.
“Elliott is trying to defeat”: Kim Byung-chul, “Samsung Really Wants to Succeed in
the Merger,” Huffington Post Korea, July 14, 2015,
https://www.huffingtonpost.kr/2015/07/14/story_n_7790824.html. This
source is in Korean. The author’s researcher translated the headline and text
into English.
sent out five thousand employees: Jo Gwi-dong, “Samsung C&T’s Persuation of
Elliott-allied Foreign Shareholders Successful,” Chosun Biz, July 17, 2015,
http://biz.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2015/07/17/2015071701664.html.
This source is in Korean. The author’s researcher translated the headline and
text into English. Information on the walnut cakes and watermelons are in Jen
Wieczner. “Inside Elliott Management: How Paul Singer’s Hedge Fund
Always Wins,” Fortune. December 7, 2017, https://fortune.com/2017/12/07/
elliott-management-hedge-fund-paul-singer/.
“We beg of you”: Jonathan Cheng and Min-Jeong Lee, “As Vote Nears, Samsung
Pulls Out All the Stops,” The Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2015,
https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-vote-nears-samsung-pulls-out-all-the-stops-
1436994473.
“That’s shady”: Representative of minority shareholder, interview by the author,
July 16, 2015.
“Korea-related issues”: Joo Jin-woo, “We Are Revealing the ‘Samsung Jang
Choong-gi’ Text Messages in Full,’ ” SisaIN, August 9, 2017,
https://www.sisain.co.kr/?mod=news&act=articleView&idxno=29814. This
source is in Korean. The author’s researcher translated the headline and text
into English.
“lawyer actually handling this case”: Ibid. More information is at Kim Eun-ji and
Joo Jin-woo, “Messages of Favor That Samsung’s Jang Choong-ki Received,”
SisaIN, August 16, 2017, https://www.sisain.co.kr/?
mod=news&act=articleView&idxno=29863. This source is in Korean. The
author’s researcher translated the headline and text into English.
“ ‘Jewish ISS [Institutional Shareholder Services]’ blatantly”: Haviv Rettig Gur,
“Fight over One of the World’s Largest Tech Companies Turns Anti-Semitic,”
The Times of Israel, July 9, 2015, https://www.timesofisrael.com/fight-over-