lobbied successfully through: Yoizi Ishigawa, Lee Byung-chul and the Samsung
Empire (Seoul: Dolsaem, 1988), p. 1. This source is in Korean. The author’s
researcher translated the title and the quoted text into English.
“We are too late”: Myeong Jin-kyu, Young Lee Kun-hee (Bucheon, South Korea:
Fandom Books, 2013), p. 272. This source is in Korean. The author’s
researcher translated the title and the quoted text into English.
under increasing pressure from Hyundai: Michell, Samsung Electronics and the
Struggle for Leadership, p. 53.
his son tried to persuade him: Myeong, Young Lee Kun-hee, p. 273.
“Our nation has a large population”: Kwon Se-jin, “Samsung, the Company That
Found Its Driving Force in Era-Appropriate Technological Development,”
Premium Chosun, April 1, 2016. The article repeats verbatim the original
Tokyo declaration, published by JoongAng Ilbo on March 15, 1983.
http://premium.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2016/03/29/
2016032901912.html. More information can be found in Woo Eun-sik, “1983
Tokyo Declaration...Writing the Semiconductor Legend,” Newsis, June 30,
2013, http://www.newsis.com/view/?id=NISX20130629_0012194301. These
two sources are in Korean. The author’s researcher translated the titles and the
quoted text into English.
“The people I’m going to call”: Nam-yoon Kim, interview by the author, September
30, 2015.
Samsung christened its first: “Samsung Breaking Ground of Semiconductor Factory
in 100,000-pyeong Ground at Kiheung,” Kyunghang Sinumun, September 12,
1983, https://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?
articleId=1983091200329205015&editNo=2&printCount=1&publishDate=1983-
09-12&officeId=00032&pageNo=5&printNo=11679&publishType=00020.
“Pyeong” is a Korean unit of floorspace, equivalent to 35.5833 square feet.
This source is in Korean. The author’s researcher translated the title and the
quoted text into English.
“A visitor to the Samsung plant”: Clifford, Troubled Tiger, p. 315.
“The thought of going bankrupt”: Arirang News, “Interview with Lee Yoon-woo
from Samsung Electronics [Korea Today],” posted by YouTube user Arirang
Issue on March 19, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkN36Ne61UE.
The Samsung engineers were granted: Nam-yoon Kim, phone interview with the
author’s researcher Max Soeun Kim, March 24, 2017. The Micron operation
has been written about in many Korean newspapers. More detail is available at
Shin Dong-jin, “For 34 Years, Samsung’s Giheung Plant Is Moved by the
Chipmaker’s Credo,” DongA Ilbo, Jan 11, 2017, http://www.donga.com/news/
article/all/20170110/82313144/1#csidx30dec045219dfd395e94d6895c0b800.
This source is in Korean. The author’s researcher translated the title and the
text into English.