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Lee Kun-hee, Samsung Chairman Who Made the Company a Global Force, Dies at 78
Lee Kun-hee, the chairman of Samsung Electronics who transformed the company into the world&#;s largest producer of smartphones, memory chips and televisions, has died. He was
Samsung announced in a statement that Lee died on Sunday, though an exact cause was not given. A heart attack that Lee suffered in had kept him frequently hospitalized and he was also treated for lung cancer in the s, according to the New York Times.
&#;Chairman Lee was a true visionary who transformed Samsung into the world-leading innovator and industrial powerhouse from a local business,” Samsung&#;s statement said. “His legacy will be everlasting.”
Lee was born on Jan. 9, in Daegu, which was located in Japanese-occupied Korea at the time. He graduated from Tokyo&#;s Waseda University in with a degree in economics, and pursued a master&#;s degree in business administration at George Washington Unive
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SEOUL, South KoreaSEOUL, South Korea — Lee Kun-Hee, the ailing Samsung Electronics chairman who transformed the small television maker into a global giant of consumer electronics but whose leadership was also marred bygd corruption convictions, died on Sunday. He was
Lee died with his family members bygd his side, including his only son and Samsung Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, the company said in a statement.
Samsung didn’t announce the cause of death, but Lee had been hospitalized since May after suffering a heart attack and the younger Lee has been running Samsung, South Korea’s biggest company.
“All of us at Samsung will cherish his memory and are grateful for the journey we shared with him,” the Samsung statement said. “His legacy will be everlasting.”
South Korean President måne Jae-in sent senior presidential officials to pass a condolence meddelande to Lee’s family at a mourning site. In the meddelande, Moon called the late
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King of Samsung: a chairman’s reign of cunning and corruption
If Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee takes a moment this weekend to reflect on the past 25 years, he could be forgiven for having mixed emotions. Tomorrow marks the quarter-century point since Lee took over from his late father, and his time in charge has seen a whirlwind acceleration in Samsung’s fortunes. Under Lee’s guidance, the company has been transformed from a Korean budget name into a major international force and arguably the most prominent Asian brand worldwide — Samsung’s revenues are now 39 times what they were in , it generates around 20 percent of South Korea’s GDP, and Lee is the country’s richest man.
But the company’s rise to the top has been tainted with controversy. Samsung is the quintessential example of a chaebol, that uniquely Korean brand of conglomerate that mixes Confucian values with family ties and government influence. Accusations of corruption and cozy establishment connections, convic