“They said nunchi”: Scott Seungkyu Yoon, former Samsung employee, interview by
the author, December 2, 2015.
More than 36,000 American servicemen: Steve Vogel, “Death Miscount Etched into
History,” The Washington Post, June 25, 2000,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/06/25/death-miscount-
etched-into-history/ab9d6830-b10d-429c-a3b0-cbdbaa3a23d1/?
utm_term=.eca70b035d82.
Its GDP was about the size: “The Next Big Bet,” The Economist, October 1, 2011,
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2011/10/01/the-next-big-bet.
“The Koreans...are the cruellest”: Ian Fleming, Goldfinger (London: Jonathan Cape,
1959), p. 81.
B.C. built his first fortune: Sea-jin Chang, Financial Crisis and the Transformation
of Korean Business Groups: The Rise and Fall of Chaebols (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 47.
In the 1950s, people began: “Collusion Between Rising Chaebol and the Political
Force,” Kyunghyang Shinmun, August 10, 1958,
https://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?
articleId=1958081000329202001&editNo=2&printCount=1&publishDate=1958-
08-10&officeId=00032&pageNo=2&printNo=4061&publishType=00020.
This source is in Korean. The author’s researcher translated the title and the
quoted text into English.
As his wealth grew: Lee, Autobiography of Hoam, pp. 113–20.
By the end of the decade: Lankov, “Lee Byung-chull.”
the man with the “golden touch”: “South Korea’s $500 Million Man,” Time, July 19,
1976, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914344,00.html.
“Mr. All-Wool”: Lee, Autobiography of Hoam, p. 94.
Henry was a grandson: Paik Sul-hee and Na Byeong-hyun, “Who Is Lee In-hee,
Advisor of Hansol?” Business Post, August 29, 2016.
http://www.businesspost.co.kr/BP?command=naver&num=33051. This
source is in Korean. The author’s researcher translated the headline and text
into English.
“The family, they protect each other”: Tom Casey, interview by the author, August
6, 2015.
his family’s crest of honor: Henry Cho, interviews by the author, January 11, 2016,
and March 25, 2016.
“At meals he would tear”: Henry Cho, email message to the author, May 25, 2019.
“He was so cool”: Henry Cho, interview by the author, March 25, 2016.
B.C. loved golf: Han Eun-koo. “Chairman Lee Byung-chul’s Strong Rival
Mentality,” March 2008, Korea Economic Daily Magazine,
http://magazine.hankyung.com/money/apps/news?