Acknowledgments
TO MOM, DAD, AMY, and Natalie, for their patience as I traveled across
oceans and disappeared.
To Roger Scholl, my editor, for elevating my manuscript into something
worthy of a book.
To Alan Rinzler, my mentor and consulting editor, for teaching me
what it takes to be an author.
To David Halpern, my agent, for believing in me.
To Max Soeun Kim, my right-hand man, for making this book possible
with skilled research and translations.
To Jieun Choi, Hyejin Shin, Junyoub Lee, Jihye Lee, Jeong-min Park,
Lucinda “Ping” Cowing, and Simon Denny for research, fact-checking, and
translations.
To Haeryun Kang, Calvin Godfrey, and Daniel Tudor, for reading and
critiquing my manuscript.
To Hal Husrevoglu, for giving me a workspace in his cigar bar, Burn
(where my lungs have since aged).
To David Swanson, Krista Mahr, Simon Long, Hugo Restall, Colum
Murphy, David Case, and Emily Lodish, for teaching me to be a foreign
correspondent.
To Don Kirk, for giving me a roof.
To the people of Samsung, for telling me their stories with little benefit
to themselves.
To the people of Korea, for hosting me.