“Having had a lot of experience”: Lee, Lee Kun-hee Essays, p. 16.
“The Japanese brought this precision”: Nam-yoon Kim, interview by the author,
September 30, 2015.
“He predicted that when he died”: Henry Cho, interview by the author, March 25,
2016.
A Samsung advertisement: Magazine advertisement in the author’s possession.
5: THE CONFUCIAN AND THE HIPPIE
“Samsung’s research lab...reminded me”: Ira Magaziner and Mark Patinkin, The
Silent War: Inside the Global Business Battles Shaping America’s Future (New
York: Random House, 1989), pp. 22–24.
“as automated as any TV plant”: Magaziner and Patinkin, Silent War, pp. 30–35.
there would be no American-owned: Barnaby J. Feder, “Last U.S. TV Maker Will
Sell Control to Koreans,” The New York Times, July 18, 1995,
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/18/us/last-us-tv-maker-will-sell-control-to-
koreans.html.
“Steve knew the future”: Jay Elliot, interview by the author, January 9, 2014.
“a personal computer for children”: Alan C. Kay, “A Personal Computer for
Children of All Ages,” Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 1972,
http://www.vpri.org/pdf/hc_pers_comp_for_children.pdf.
But that didn’t deter Jobs: Alan Kay, “American Computer Pioneer Alan Kay’s
Concept, the Dynabook, Was Published in 1972. How Come Steve Jobs and
Apple iPad Get the Credit for Tablet Invention?” Quora, April 21, 2019,
https://www.quora.com/American-computer-pioneer-Alan-Kay-s-concept-the-
Dynabook-was-published-in-1972-How-come-Steve-Jobs-and-Apple-iPad-
get-the-credit-for-tablet-invention/answer/Alan-Kay-11.
would need to be portable: Jay Elliot, interview by the author, January 9, 2014.
Jobs disembarked at the grimy: Jay Elliot, interview by the author, January 9, 2014.
Samsung began supplying Apple: Frank Rose, West of Eden: The End of Innocence
at Apple Computer (New York: Stuyvesant Street Press, 1989), p. 163.
“Steve was boasting”: Jay Elliot, interview by the author, January 9, 2014.
“Jobs is the figure”: “Jobs, Samsung Electronics Had 30-Year Love-Hate
Relationship,” Dong-A Ilbo, October 7, 2011, http://www.donga.com/English/
List/Article/all/20111007/402284/1/Jobs-Samsung-Electronics-had-30-year-
love-hate-relationship.
“iPhone killer”: John M. Glionna and Jung-yoon Choi, “iPhone Is Invading South
Korea, Home of Samsung’s Galaxy S,” Los Angeles Times, January 22, 2011,
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-xpm-2011-jan-22-la-fi-iphone-korea-
