Crown Third-Generation ‘Emperor,’ ” The Washington Post, October 9, 2014,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-south-korea-samsung-prepares-to-
crown-third-generation-emperor/2014/10/08/6ec0ba58-44bb-11e4-b437-
1a7368204804_story.html.
voted through legal representatives: Kim, “Samsung Beats Elliott to Pass Merger
Deal.”
lost 40 percent of their value: “Samsung C&T Stocks Plunge as Lower Demand Hits
Bottom Line,” The Korea Herald, May 17, 2016,
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/biz/2019/04/488_204880.html.
suffered $500 million in losses: Park Han-na, “NPS Sees Big Losses After Samsung
C&T Merger,” The Investor, November 21, 2016,
http://www.theinvestor.co.kr/view.php?ud=20161121000877.
“My observation on Samsung”: Choi Kwang, interview by the author, May 7, 2017.
29: MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE
“The president would like”: “Lee Jae-yong’s Feelings About the Park Meeting
Revealed,” Maeil Business Newspaper, August 6, 2017, https://www.mk.co.kr/
news/society/view/2017/08/526943/. This source is in Korean. The author’s
researcher translated the headline and text into English.
“I am married to the nation”: Choi Hoon, “Living in the Past,” Korea JoongAng
Daily, December 8, 2016, http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/
article.aspx?aid=3027134.
“How is Chairman Lee Kun-hee’s health?”: Lee, “Park Geun-hye Administration.”
“Samsung management succession situation”: Lee Dong-hyun, “Blue House: Park
Geun-hye Administration, Samsung Memo Written in August 2014,” Hankook
Ilbo, July 16, 2017, https://www.hankookilbo.com/News/Read/
201707161519454085. This source is in Korean. The author’s researcher
translated the headline and text into English. Elliott Associates, the hedge fund
that challenged the Samsung merger in a shareholder vote, published a
comprehensive English account of evidence from Jay Lee’s trial in a
document intended for Elliott’s later arbitration case against the South Korean
government. The document is KL Partners, Three Crowns LLP, and Kobre &
Kim, “Claimant’s Amended Statement of Claim,” Elliott Associates, L.P. vs.
Republic of Korea, Arbitration Under the Arbitration Rules of the United
Nations Commission on International Trade Law and the Free Trade
Agreement between the Republic of Korea and the United States of America,
April 4, 2019, https://pcacases.com/web/sendAttach/2594.
“I think I know what people”: Kang Young-soo. “Lee Jae-yong: ‘After Being
Chastised by President Park, I See What People Mean About Her ‘Laser Beam
Gaze,’ ” Chosun Ilbo, April 7, 2017, http://news.chosun.com/site/data/
