popup=0&nid=02&c1=2007&nkey=2008022800034000532&mode=sub_view
and Chinese calligraphy: Yi Hwang-hoe, “Songcheon Chung Ha-geon: Lee Byung-
chull Was the Kind of Person Who Didn’t Put Off His Calligraphy Even on
the Morning of His Birthday,” Maeil Business Newspaper. October 31, 2014,
https://www.mk.co.kr/news/culture/view/2014/10/1376161/. This source is in
Korean. The author’s researcher translated the title and the quoted text into
English.
“As far as politics was concerned”: Henry Cho, interview by the author, March 25,
2016.
“B.C. arrives at his downtown Seoul office”: “South Korea’s $500 Million Man.”
with his second wife, Kurata Michiko: So Jong-seob, “Samsung’s Lee Byung-chul
Family Opens the Era of Chaebol Intermarriages with LG founder Koo In-
hoe,” Sisa Journal, November 6, 2014, http://www.sisajournal.com/news/
articleView.html?idxno=140341&replyAll=&reply_sc_order_by=I. Kurata
Michiko’s name is recalled by Henry Cho and in other historical Korean news
articles on Samsung. This source is in Korean. The author’s researcher
translated the title and the quoted text into English.
“Critics...called us puppies”: Daniel Lee, Son of the Phoenix: One’s [sic] Man’s Story
of Korea (Seoul: Voice Publishing House, 2008), p. 142.
“They treated me like a god”: Henry Cho, interview by the author, March 25, 2016.
3: DYNASTY ASCENDANT
“I think they [Samsung] are mimicking”: Jisoo Lee, interview by the author,
October 21, 2015.
B.C. had five daughters: Kim Chun-hyo, Samsung, Media Empire and Family: A
Power Web (New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 40–43.
Hong Jin-ki was a colorful lawyer: Myeong Jin-kyu, Young Lee Kun-hee (Bucheon,
South Korea: Fandom Books, 2013), p. 257. This source is in Korean. The
author’s researcher translated the title and the quoted text into English.
In 1965, B.C. founded Samsung’s newspaper: Kim Eun-hyang, “Who Is Hong Ra-
hee? ‘Mistress of the Samsung Household, Daughter of Former JoongAng Ilbo
Chairman Hong Jin-ki,’ ” Dong-A Ilbo, March 6, 2017, http://news.donga.com/
3/all/20170306/83185072/2. This source is in Korean. The author’s researcher
translated the title and the quoted text into English.
modeled on Japan’s daily papers: Kim, Samsung, Media Empire and Family, p. 43.
“Mass communications are the best way”: “B.C. Lee’s World,” Time, April 1967,
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,843698,00.html.
“He was so good at holding”: Henry Cho, interview by the author, March 25, 2016.
“We shall rise up”: History of the Korean Military Revolution, vol. 1 (Seoul:
