“I am going to found the second establishment”: Seoul PLAN Department, Lee Kun-
hee New Management Philosophy, p. 165.
he named his home Seungjiwon: Sung Ki-myeong, “What Is Seungjiwon—Lee
Kun-hee’s Office?” No Cut News, January 14, 2008,
https://www.nocutnews.co.kr/news/400102. This source is in Korean. The
author’s researcher translated the title and the quoted text into English.
“emperor’s son” and a “lucky heir”: Seoul PLAN Department, Lee Kun-hee New
Management Philosophy, p. 11.
“I was feeling bleak”: Lee, Lee Kun-hee Essays, p. 56. This source is in Korean. The
author’s researcher translated the title and the quoted text into English.
It still left the company: “Early Entry into the Semiconductor Market,” Kyunghyang
Shinmun, February 10, 1988. https://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?
articleId=1988021000329206005&editNo=3&printCount=1&publishDate=1988-
02-10&officeId=00032&pageNo=6&printNo=13037&publishType=00020.
More information is available at “Victory of the 4 Megabit,” Dong-A Ilbo,
February 10, 1988, https://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?
articleId=1988021000209202002. These sources are in Korean. The author’s
researcher translated the titles and the quoted text into English.
Samsung executives took the first: Laxmi Nakarmi and Robert Neff, “Samsung’s
Radical Shakeup,” BusinessWeek, February 28, 1994,
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1994-02-27/samsungs-radical-
shakeup.
“My nickname is ‘the silent one’ ”: Lee, Lee Kun-hee Essays, p. 18.
wanted to be a film director: Kang, Lee Kun-hee Era, p. 120.
Chairman Lee was something of a recluse: Kang, Lee Kun-hee Era, p. 120.
Chairman Lee talks about his love of Ben-Hur in Lee Kun-hee Essays. More
information about why he chose Ben-Hur as a favorite—because the film has
many elements and complexities that he notices each time he watches it—is in
“Lesson of mokgye,” Korea Herald, June 3, 2003 (no author). The article is in
English and is not online. It is in the author’s possession.
“He digs into one issue”: Hwang Young-key, interview by the author, June 5, 2014.
“man the artist”: Lee, Lee Kun-hee Essays, p. 63.
“Even in idle conversation”: Ibid., p. 63.
“He did not strike me as”: Ibid., p. 129.
sometimes not even in full sentences: Henry Cho, KaKaoTalk message to the
author, October 30, 2017. More information on Chairman Lee’s eccentric
style of speech can be found in “Chairman Lee Kun-hee’s ‘Quotes’...Not
Silver-Tongued Like Jobs but a Fastball Style That Gets to the Point,” Dong-A
Ilbo, November 21, 2012, http://www.donga.com/news/article/all/20121120/
50990866/1. This source is in Korean. The author’s researcher translated the