Samsung has a powerful influence on South Korea's economic development, politics, media and culture, and has been a major driving force behind the "Miracle on the Han River".
Pokol je bil tudi osnova za nedavno izdano knjigo Last Man Out, avtorja Glenn McDolle, USMC, Survivor of the Palawan Massacre in World War II, avtorja Boba Wilbanksa in začetnih kadrov Miramaxovega filma iz leta 2005, The Great Raid.