sales of the Galaxy S8 weren’t: Former Galaxy marketer, interview by the author,
October 9, 2017. More reasons for lackluster sales are addressed in Kim
Yong-won, “Samsung Electronics Galaxy S8 Sales Below Expectations, Dark
Clouds Hanging over Long-Term Popularity,” BusinessPost, April 26, 2017,
http://www.businesspost.co.kr/BP?command=naver&num=49245. This
source is in Korean. The author’s researcher translated the headline and text
into English.
stock market to all-time highs: Peter Wells, “Samsung Pushes South Korean Stocks
Toward Record High,” Financial Times, May 2, 2017, https://www.ft.com/
content/62df3254-5ea6-3ea6-b2bb-fb90399b42a0.
most profitable tech company: Jacky Wong, “The World’s Most Profitable Tech
Company? Not Apple,” The Wall Street Journal, July 6, 2017,
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-worlds-most-profitable-tech-company-not-
apple-1499398067. This is not by the same reporter who interviewed the
author of this book, but the article shows the soaring profits of the time.
“It’s a kind of tragedy”: “Dr. Oh-Hyun Kwon, Vice Chairman & CEO, Samsung
Electronics Co., Ltd.,” posted by YouTube user The Economic Club of
Washington, D.C., on October 19, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=uCkoRV4fOUs.
“What did Jay Y. Lee do wrong?”: Stone, King, and King, “Summer of Samsung.”
“In retrospect I had a lot”: Jeyup S. Kwaak and Paul Mozur, “Mastermind or Naïf?
Samsung Heir’s Fate Hinges on the Question,” The New York Times, August
23, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/business/samsung-jay-lee-
trial-lee-jae-yong.html.
“Mastermind or Naïf?”: Ibid.
“Back when Chairman Lee”: “Jay Lee: ‘Park Geun-hye Complained About Hong
Seok-hyun in Private,’ ” Yonhap News Agency, August 2, 2017,
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20170802175300004. This source is in
Korean. The author’s researcher translated the headline and text into English.
“Jay Y. Lee is not the group’s”: Joyce Lee and Hyunjoo Jin, “Downfall of Ex–
Samsung Strategy Chief Leaves ‘Salarymen’ Disillusioned,” Reuters, August
25, 2017, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-samsung-lee-choi/downfall-of-
ex-samsung-strategy-chief-leaves-salarymen-disillusioned-idUSKCN1B50UX.
“None of us will ever forget”: Samsung Electronics, “Samsung Galaxy Note 8
Unpacked—Full Replay,” posted by YouTube user samsungnewzealand on
September 10, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2YErBpcB-w.
“A year ago, I wrote”: Dan Seifert, “Samsung Galaxy S8 Review: One for the Fans,”
The Verge, September 5, 2017, https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/5/
16253308/samsung-galaxy-note-8-review.
“direct favors”: Seoul Central District Court, 27th Criminal Division, “Ruling on
2017 (Goh-hap) 194,” August 25, 2017, pp. 50–105. The Korean term Goh-