“This is a new experience”: Brad Stone, Sam King, and Ian King, “Summer of
Samsung: A Corruption Scandal, a Political Firestorm—and a Record Profit,”
Bloomberg Businessweek, July 26, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/
features/2017-07-27/summer-of-samsung-a-corruption-scandal-a-political-
firestorm-and-a-record-profit.
The Chairman’s cousin Miky Lee: “History Repeats Itself,” Korea Herald, April 8,
2018, http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20180408000033.
citing health concerns: Ahn Sung-mi, “CJ Vice Chairwoman Signals Return with
Rare Public Appearance,” The Investor, December 6, 2016,
http://www.theinvestor.co.kr/view.php?ud=20161206000638.
She, too, had been targeted: Christine Kim, “The World According to Park: A
Blacklist and Placenta Shots in South Korea,” Reuters, January 19, 2017,
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-politics-blacklist-
idUSKBN15314D.
Before dawn on March 30: Han Yeong-hye, “Seoul Detention Center, Where
Former President Park Geun-hye Is Detained,” JoongAng Ilbo, March 31,
2017, https://news.joins.com/article/21425038. This source is in Korean. The
author’s researcher translated the headline and text into English.
“We look around, and our Samsung”: Former Samsung vice president, interview by
the author, September 1, 2017.
Some 200,000 Galaxy Note 7s: Geoffrey A. Fowler and Joanna Stern, “Why
Samsung’s Battery Fix Gets a Grade C, For Now,” The Wall Street Journal,
January 22, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-samsungs-battery-fix-
gets-a-grade-c-for-now-1485133200.
CEO D.J. Koh took the stage: Samsung Electronics, “Samsung Finally Reveals Why
the Galaxy Note 7 Kept Exploding,” posted by YouTube user Tech Events on
January 23, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu18CykEH9o.
“The rather poor way they handled”: Paul Mozur, “Galaxy Note 7 Fires Caused by
Battery and Design Flaws, Samsung Says,” The New York Times, January 22,
2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/business/samsung-galaxy-note-7-
battery-fires-report.html.
gave Samsung’s battery fix: Fowler and Stern, “Why Samsung’s Battery Fix Gets a
Grade C.”
“Samsung claimed that the problem”: Park Chul Wan, email message to the author’s
researcher Max Soeun Kim, April 21, 2017.
“the most beautiful phone ever”: Jessica Dolcourt, “Samsung Galaxy S8 Review,”
CNET, May 26, 2017, https://www.cnet.com/reviews/samsung-galaxy-s8-
review/.
“brilliant phone”: Gareth Beavis, “Samsung Galaxy S8 Review,” TechRadar,
January 17, 2019, https://www.techradar.com/reviews/samsung-galaxy-s8-
review.