December 28, 2016.
“This is my country”: Lee, Let’s Change Ourselves First.
In 1993 Samsung employees: Steve Glain, “Going for Growth: Plans of Samsung
Chairman Strike Many as Too Risky,” The Asian Wall Street Journal, March
3, 1995, http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/
Lee.Kun.Hee.biz.pdf.
“more like 7:00 A.M. to 10:00 P.M.”: Nam-yoon Kim, interview by the author,
September 30, 2015.
In March of that year: Frank Rose, “Seoul Machine,” Wired, January 4, 2005,
https://www.wired.com/2005/05/samsung/.
A few employees at the front: The New Management (Samsung Electronics, 2013),
internal documentary, 7 minutes 16 seconds. Video is in the author’s
possession.
“covered the pile”: Gordon Kim, interview by the author, November 15, 2010.
“If you continue to make”: Grobart, “How Samsung Became the World’s No.1
Smartphone Maker.”
“as if their babies had died”: Kim Seon-jeong, interview by the author, June 30,
2015.
a tranche of high-level executives: Kim Seon-jeong, interview by the author, June
30, 2015.
“That was the perfect tool”: Jisoo Lee, interview by the author, October 21, 2015.
The plans got under way: Seo Bo-mi, “Samsung’s ‘Innovative’ Inheritance
Technique,” Hankyoreh, January 5, 2013, http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/
english_edition/e_business/568398.html.
“We knew that this transaction”: Cho Seung-hyeon, interview by the author, March
10, 2015.
A South Korean court later ruled: Choe Sang-hun, “Court Upholds Conviction of 2
at Samsung,” The New York Times, May 29, 2007, https://www.nytimes.com/
2007/05/29/business/worldbusiness/29iht-samsung.1.5910969.html.
“They were all sort of falling”: Kim Seon-jeong, interview by the author, June 30,
2015.
forfeiting their right: Seo, “Samsung’s ‘Innovative’ Inheritance Technique.”
“On June 7th, 1993, a meeting”: Office of the Executive Staff of the Samsung
Group, Samsung’s New Management, p. 28.
10: GO WEST, YOUNG HEIR
“She is not like Korean men”: Andrew Pollack, “Unlikely Credits for a Korean
Movie Mogul,” The New York Times, July 5, 1996, https://www.nytimes.com/
