28myers.html.“the second-most-nationalist country”: “The Cleanest Race,” C-SPAN, February 11,
2010, https://www.c-span.org/video/?292562-1/the-cleanest-race.
a punching fist and a formation of the word “victory”: Numerous internal Samsung
videos of the festivals from the 2000s and early 2010s, in the author’s
possession. The festivals have been written about in “Leaked Video Offers
Window into Samsung Culture,” Hankyoreh, June 21, 2007,
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/217378.html. The
Hankyoreh article describes two of these videos.
“South Koreans cannot seem”: Choe Sang-hun, “Samsung Heirs Stage a Korean
Soap Opera,” The New York Times, April 24, 2012, https://www.nytimes.com/
2012/04/25/business/global/samsung-heirs-stage-a-korean-soap-opera.html.
was “very apt”: Bruce Cumings, email message to the author, April 21, 2016.
“Victorious fighting spirit!”: Samsung internal video in the author’s possession.
They’d been through boot camps: Kim Mi-young, “I Escaped Samsung, and Then I
Was Happy,” Hankyoreh, December 6, 2013, http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/
economy/economy_general/614281.html. More information on Samsung’s
boot camp and hikes are available in an employee’s blog post at Kim Il-kown,
“My Samsung Chronicle: Physical Training Is the Heart of Newcomer
Orientation,” Camera4u (blog name) at blog website Tistory, December 8,
2013, https://camera4u.tistory.com/465. These sources are in Korean. The
author’s researcher translated the titles and the text into English. The author is
in possession of more documents, a slide presentation, employee blog posts,
and a case study on Samsung’s training practices.
A trumpet blared: Samsung internal video in the author’s possession.
“It was amazing, scary, and weird”: Samsung manager, interview by the author,
November 24, 2016.
“That’s offensive”: Samsung public relations vice president, in conversation with the
author, April 20, 2016.
All have been pardoned: No single article or book mentions the full number of
arrests, convictions, or pardons. The author keeps a tally of chaebol leaders
convicted and pardoned since the 1990s.
From January 2015 to February 2016: Samsung Electronics, “Proxy Material, 2016
Annual General Meeting of Shareholders.” Document is in the author’s
possession.
“According to crisis simulations”: Sangin Park, “Can South Korea Survive Without
Samsung Electronics?” Korea Exposé, October 28, 2016,
https://www.koreaexpose.com/can-south-korea-survive-without-samsung-
electronics/.
“Do you plan to criticize Samsung?”: Samsung employee, interview by the author,