https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-07-27/summer-of-samsung-
a-corruption-scandal-a-political-firestorm-and-a-record-profit.
“One mobile division executive”: Jonathan Cheng and John D. McKinnon, “The
Fatal Mistake That Doomed Samsung’s Galaxy Note,” The Wall Street Journal,
October 23, 2016, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fatal-mistake-that-
doomed-samsungs-galaxy-note-1477248978.
The company formed a task force: Stone, King, and King, “Summer of Samsung.”
The powerful enforcer: Cheng and McKinnon, “Fatal Mistake That Doomed
Samsung’s Galaxy Note.”
“Now, speculation that”: Moon Eun-hae, “[Galaxy Note 7 Recall] ‘An Excruciating
Sum’ of 2 Trillion Won...Who Will Take Responsibility?” EBN, September 3,
2016, http://www.ebn.co.kr/news/view/848961. This source is in Korean. The
author’s researcher translated the title and the text into English.
called Choi a “terrorist”: Former Samsung television vice president, phone interview
by the author, February 3, 2017.
“The Tower is watching”: Former Samsung mobile vice president, interview by the
author, March 2, 2016. More information on the Tower can be found at
Jessica E. Lessin, “Inside the Tower: Samsung’s Mobile Power Brokers,” The
Information, February 10, 2014, https://www.theinformation.com/articles/
Inside-the-Tower-Samsung-s-Mobile-Power-Brokers.
in a building called: Cheng and McKinnon, “Fatal Mistake That Doomed Samsung’s
Galaxy Note.”
“It wasn’t a definitive answer”: Cheng and McKinnon, “Fatal Mistake That Doomed
Samsung’s Galaxy Note.”
“By putting our top priority”: Georgina Mitchell, “Samsung to Recall Galaxy Note 7
Worldwide After Battery Problems,” The Sydney Morning Herald, September
2, 2016, https://www.smh.com.au/business/samsung-to-recall-galaxy-note-7-
worldwide-after-battery-problems-20160902-gr7v4w.html.
Samsung was set to recall : Samuel Gibbs and Alan Yuhas, “Samsung Suspends
Sales of Galaxy Note 7 After Smartphones Catch Fire,” The Guardian,
September 2, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/02/
samsung-recall-galaxy-note-7-reports-of-smartphones-catching-fire.
Samsung dismissed those reports as fake: Cheng and McKinnon, “Fatal Mistake
That Doomed Samsung’s Galaxy Note.”
“It wasn’t a recall at all”: Matt Novak, “How One Outrageous Law Turned the
Samsung Phone Recall into a Disaster,” Gizmodo, October 11, 2016,
https://gizmodo.com/how-one-outrageous-law-turned-the-samsung-phone-
recall-1787659621.
“Without guidance from the CPSC”: Novak, “How One Outrageous Law.”
“In my mind”: Christina Warren, “Samsung Finally Launches Official Recall of the