Compilation Committee for Korean Military Revolution History and the
Supreme Council for National Reconstruction, 1963), p. 199.
“That day...around 7:00 A.M.”: Lee, Autobiography of Hoam, p. 176.
“a fresh summer rain was pouring”: Ibid., p. 180.
“Passing the secretary’s office”: Ibid., pp. 182–83.
“You can say anything”: Ibid., p. 183.
$4,400,000 in unpaid taxes: “B.C. Lee’s World.”
an unconventional thinker: Henry Stokes, “He Ran South Korea, Down to Last
Detail,” The New York Times, October 27, 1979, https://www.nytimes.com/
1979/10/27/archives/he-ran-south-korea-down-to-last-detail-he-ran-south-
korea-down-to.html.
A good deal of Park’s worldview: Carter J. Eckert, Park Chung-hee and Modern
Korea (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016), pp. 180–88.
bowed before a picture of Hitler: Eckert, Park Chung-hee and Modern Korea, p.
102.
“Their old, dated ways”: Kim Chung-yum, From Despair to Hope: Economic
Policymaking in Korea 1945–1979 (Seoul: Korea Development Institute,
2011), p. 580, https://www.kdi.re.kr/kdi_eng/publications/
publication_view.jsp?pub_no=11820.
“What is urgently required”: Park Chung-hee, “Speech at the Cornerstone-Laying
Ceremony of Gimhae District Reclamation Work,” June 1, 1965, excerpted
from Selected Speeches of President Park Chung-hee: January 1965–December
1965 (Seoul: Office of the President 1966), Presidential Archives, National
Archives of Korea, file number B000080900000011,
http://dams.pa.go.kr:8888/dams/ezpdf/ezPdfReader.jsp?
itemID=/DOCUMENT/2009/11/26/DOC/SRC/0104200911264156800041568013535.PDF
A non-PDF web text is available in the archive’s catalog of speeches at
http://pa.go.kr/research/contents/speech/index.jsp. This source is in Korean.
The author’s researcher translated the title and the quoted text into English.
Korea retained parts: Stokes, “He Ran South Korea.”
a pure and unadulterated bloodline: Henry H. Em, “Minjok as a Construct,” in
Colonial Modernity in Korea, ed. Gi-wook Shin and Michael Edson Robinson
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2000), pp. 339–61.
The regime seized private banks: Lee Byung-chun, Economic Development Based on
Dictatorship and the Park Chung-hee Era (Paju, South Korea: Changbi, 2003),
p. 111. This source is in Korean. The author’s researcher translated the title
and the quoted text into English.
His regime set tough export quotas: “President Park to Continue ‘Export First’
Policy Next Year,” Kyunghyang Shinmun, December 24, 1975,
https://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?