https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-03-28/how-samsung-became-
the-worlds-no-dot-1-smartphone-maker.
Next the livid chairman ordered: Kim and Woo, “Change Everything You Got.”
On the morning of June 7, 1993: The New Management (Samsung Electronics,
2013), internal documentary, 7 minutes 16 seconds. Video is in the author’s
possession.
The chairman wasn’t sleeping: Nakarmi and Neff, “Samsung’s Radical Shakeup.”
“I have felt a cold sweat”: Office of the Executive Staff of the Samsung Group,
Samsung’s New Management: Change Begins with Me (Seoul: Cheil
Communications and Samsung Printing, May 1994), p. 19. The English
edition of this book is in the author’s possession.
“The Cold War has ended”: Office of the Executive Staff of the Samsung Group,
Samsung’s New Management, p. 21.
“At Samsung, we must adhere”: Ibid., pp. 64–65.
“Change everything except your wife”: “Samsung: Waiting in the Wings,” The
Economist, October 1, 2014, https://www.economist.com/business/2014/10/
01/waiting-in-the-wings.
“perpetual crisis”: Michell, Samsung Electronics and the Struggle for Leadership, p.
15.
“absolutely unexpected by anybody”: Hwang Young-key, interview by the author,
June 5, 2014.
“expletives and vulgar words”: Jung-taek Shim, Collapse of Samsung (Seoul:
Penguin Random House Korea, 2015), p. 38. This source is in Korean. The
author’s researcher translated the title and the quoted text into English.
“I’m sorry, sir, but quantity”: Sung-Ho Kim and In-Ho Woo, “Do They Need Higher
Authority Than Chairman?” The Korea Herald, June 3, 2003. The article is in
English and is not available online. It is in the author’s possession.
“After two weeks, we had to”: Kim and Woo, “Change Everything You Got.” The
article is in English and is not available online. It is in the author’s possession.
“I don’t know how he did it”: Henry Cho, interview by the author, March 25, 2016.
8,500 pages of transcripts: Grobart, “How Samsung Became the World’s No. 1
Smartphone Maker.”
9: CHURCH OF SAMSUNG
“These were not”: Hwang Young-key, interview by the author, June 5, 2014.
Change Begins with Me: Office of the Executive Staff of the Samsung Group,
Samsung’s New Management.
“It was kind of like Chairman Mao’s”: Peter Skarzynski, interview by the author,
