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articleId=1975122400329201003. This source is in Korean. The author’s
researcher translated the title and the quoted text into English.
the torrent of foreign money: Lee, Economic Development Based on Dictatorship, p.
302.


Japanese payments totaling $800 million: Chung Dae-ha, “Companies That Used
Claimed Money from Japan Are Turning Away from Victims of Conscript,”
Hankyoreh, May 30, 2012. This source is in Korean. The author’s researcher
translated the title and the quoted text into English.
“This is a steel factory”: Chung, “Companies That Used Claimed Money.”


hurling an ashtray: Clifford, Troubled Tiger, p. 15.


Federation of Korean Industries: Eun Mee Kim and Gil-sung Park, “The Chaebol,”
in The Park Chung-hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea, ed. Byung-
kook Kim and Ezra F. Vogel (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
2013), pp. 274–76.
“The government will offer”: Lee, Autobiography of Hoam, p. 228.


“In the coastal city of Ulsan”: “B.C. Lee’s World.”
“Eat this saccharin!”: Ibid.


Lee Chang-hee, B.C.’s second son: “A Second Birth: Samsung Chaebol (6) The
Young Blood Five,” Maeil Business Newspaper, July 17, 1968,
https://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?
articleId=1968071700099201007. This source is in Korean. The author’s
researcher translated the title and the quoted text into English.


was a “troublemaker”: Henry Cho, interview by the author, March 25, 2016. More
stories about Lee Maeng-hee’s “troublemaker” image can be found in Lee
Yong-woo, Lee Maeng-hee, Prince Sado of Samsung (Seoul: Pyungminsa,
2012). In one instance, Lee Maeng-hee shot a Browning hunting rifle in the air
in front of a group of Samsung executives. They ran off.
Maeng-hee later admitted: Yoizi Ishigawa, Lee Byung-chul and the Samsung Empire
(Seoul: Dolsaem, 1988), pp. 64–65. This source is in Korean. The author’s
researcher translated the title and the quoted text into English.


“But his father refused”: Henry Cho, interview by the author, March 25, 2016.
More information on the succession can be found in Korean in “The Difficult
Task of Succession,” Maeil Business Newspaper, July 29, 1969,
https://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?
articleId=1969072900099201009.


So Chang-hee sent an anonymous tip: Kim Jin-cheol, “Anonymous Tip to the Blue
House, LG Marital Conflicts...40 Years of Rock-Bottom Samsung Drama,”
Hankyoreh, April 24, 2012, http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/economy/
economy_general/529764.html. This source is in Korean. The author’s
researcher translated the title and the quoted text into English. Many of these

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