March 14, 2015.
“I hope you aren’t annoyed”: Nam Ki-young, email message to the author,
September 15, 2015.
In our subsequent meetings: Samsung public relations executive vice president, in
conversation with the author, December 31, 2015.
7: THE SCION
“If God loves humans”: Bae Myung-bok, “Has Lee Byung-chul Found the Answer?”
Korea JoongAng Daily, December 20, 2011,
http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2945807.
He died of lung cancer: Seoul PLAN Department, Lee Kun-hee New Management
Philosophy: Give Up If It’s Not World-Class (Seoul: Podowon, 1993), p. 40.
This source is in Korean. The author’s researcher translated the title and the
quoted text into English.
Twenty-five minutes after his death: Kang Jun-man, Lee Kun-hee Era (Seoul: Inmul
and Sasang, 2005), p. 32. This source is in Korean. The author’s researcher
translated the title and the quoted text into English.
They unanimously voted in Lee: “Samsung Lee Kun-hee Inaugurated as Chairman,”
JoongAng Ilbo, December 1, 1987. This source is in Korean. The author’s
researcher translated the title and the quoted text into English.
purges of potential rivals: Henry Cho, interview by the author, March 25, 2016.
a video camera was set up: “Samsung Camera Surveillance Scandal,” Hankyoreh,
April 1, 1995, https://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?
articleId=1995040100289109003&editNo=5&printCount=1&publishDate=1995-
04-01&officeId=00028&pageNo=9&printNo=2192&publishType=00010.
This source is in Korean. The author’s researcher translated the title and the
quoted text into English.
claimed to police that it had footage: Cho Seulgi-na, “[Photos] Samsung Cars
Trailing CJ Chairman Lee Jae-hyun,” Asia Business Daily, February 23, 2012,
https://www.asiae.co.kr/article/2012022309051673366. More information on
the indictment is available at Song Jin-won, “Samsung Employees Who Tailed
CJ Chairman Summarily Indicted,” Yonhap News Agency, September 6,
2012, https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20120906167700004.
“Second Foundation”: “Conglomerate Aims for the Biggest Growth in the New
Year,” Dong-A Ilbo, December 25, 1987, https://newslibrary.naver.com/
viewer/index.nhn?
articleId=1987122500209204001&editNo=2&printCount=1&publishDate=1987-
12-25&officeId=00020&pageNo=4&printNo=20379&publishType=00020.
This source is in Korean. The author’s researcher translated the title and the
quoted text into English.
