details became clearer during testimony in three inheritance lawsuits, filed by
Lee Maeng-hee and other siblings against Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee in
2012.
“In the future”: Lee Maeng-hee, Stories I Have Kept (Seoul: Chungsan, 1993), p.
- This source is in Korean. The author’s researcher translated the title and
the quoted text into English.
“I cannot forget the sudden shock”: Lee, Stories I Have Kept, p. 284.
Walking with a slight limp: Yoizi Ishigawa, Lee Byung-chul and the Samsung
Empire, pp. 50–52.
“Actually, I was the one”: Yoizi Ishigawa, Lee Byung-chul and the Samsung Empire,
p. 67.
He was convinced: Ibid., pp. 101–102.
An unofficial South Korean biographer: Lee Yong-woo, Lee Maeng-hee, Prince
Sado of Samsung (Seoul: Pyungminsa, 2012). This source is in Korean. The
author’s researcher translated the title and the quoted text into English.
4: MARCH OF THE SAMSUNG MEN
In 1974 Samsung CEO: Kang Jin-ku, The Samsung Electronics Myth and Its Secret
(Seoul: Goryeowon, 1996), pp. 183–84. This source is in Korean. The author’s
researcher translated the title and the quoted text into English.
With the OPEC oil embargo under way: Lee Kun-hee, Lee Kun-hee Essays: Looking
at the World Critically (Seoul: Dongailbosa, 1997), p. 14. This source is in
Korean. The author’s researcher translated the title and the quoted text into
English.
“I had been thinking that”: Kang Jin-ku, The Samsung Electronics Myth and Its
Secret, p. 183.
Samsung managers warned against: Michell, Samsung Electronics and the Struggle
for Leadership, pp. 19–20.
“The company made semiconductors”: Lee, Lee Kun-hee Essays, p. 15.
“Everything appears well-organized”: U.S. Embassy Seoul “OPIC Finance Projects”
(telegram), July 24, 1975, Wikileaks canonical ID 1975SEOUL5571_b,
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975SEOUL05571_b.html.
agreed to finance part: Kang, The Samsung Electronics Myth and Its Secret, p. 195.
seized B.C.’s broadcasting station: “Closure of TBC,” Dong-A Ilbo, November 29,
1980, https://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?
articleId=1980112900209202001&editNo=2&printCount=1&publishDate=1980-
11-29&officeId=00020&pageNo=2&printNo=18202&publishType=00020.
This source is in Korean. The author’s researcher translated the title and the
quoted text into English.
