the Struggle for Leadership of the Electronics Industry (Singapore: John Wiley
& Sons [Asia], 2011), pp. 18–19.
The zaibatsu were some of: “Japan’s zaibatsu: Yes, General,” The Economist,
December 23, 1999, https://www.economist.com/business/1999/12/23/yes-
general.
Admired for their immense wealth: Hidemasa Morikawa, Zaibatsu: The Rise and
Fall of Family Enterprise Groups in Japan (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press,
1992).
“If this concentration of economic power”: Eleanor M. Hadley, Antitrust in Japan
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970), p. 142.
“We met every week”: Lee, Autobiography of Hoam, p. 79.
In 1947 he relocated: Ibid., p. 88.
epiphany while getting a haircut: Ibid., pp. 91–93.
South Korea followed with: Michell, Samsung Electronics and the Struggle for
Leadership, pp. 47–49.
“Past noon and until evening”: Autobiography of Hoam, p. 96.
Four days later, party officials: Ibid., p. 97.
They were brought before “People’s Courts”: “JTBC DocuShow Korean War
Special: Memories of Seoul’s Three Month-Long Occupation by the North
Korean Army,” JoongAng Ilbo, June 20, 2014, http://news.joins.com/article/
15020744.
“I recognized that it was my car”: Lee, Autobiography of Hoam, pp. 95–97.
“I loaded up company employees”: Ibid., p. 103.
“[The Japanese] steadfastly valued loyalty”: Ibid., pp. 167–68.
He personally sat in on: Mark Clifford, Troubled Tiger: Businessmen, Bureaucrats,
and Generals in South Korea (New York: Routledge, 1998), p. 321.
100,000 in his tenure: Andrei Lankov, “Lee Byung-chull: Founder of Samsung
Group,” The Korea Times, October 12, 2011, http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/
www/news/issues/2014/01/363_96557.html.
He hired professional physiognomists: Henry Cho, grandson of B.C. Lee, text
message to the author, October 23, 2017.
“Be prudent in hiring someone”: Lee, Autobiography of Hoam, p. 67.
A “Samsung Man” commanded respect: Sergey Konovalov, “Corporate Values in
Korea: A Descriptive Study of ‘Samsung Man’ Phenomenon” (MBA thesis,
Korea Development Institute, 2006).
“Samsung treats you the best”: Kim Chun-hyo, Samsung, Media Empire and Family:
A Power Web (New York: Routledge, 2016), p. 38.
“HR actually is the leading”: Former Samsung human resources executive, interview
by the author, December 23, 2015.