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...But his image as a graft-buster was badly undermined by a scandal surrounding his wife, first lady Kim Keon Hee, over her acceptance of a Christian Dior bag worth about Won3mn ($2,200) from a Korean-American...
...The scandal traces back to December last year, when a liberal YouTube channel revealed Kim Keon Hee, the wife of conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, had received a Christian Dior bag worth...
...Included in the permanent displays are Korean jewellery artists such as Kim Seunghee and Yun Sang-hee, and traditional Korean jewellery items such as norigae pendants....
...Seok-hee of law firm Kim & Chang....
...She is bringing works by more than 30 contemporary South Korean artists to London, including Na Ri Choi, Ha Jin Lee and Sung Hee Kim. “The artists do not pay to participate....
...This was the management theory of late Samsung group chair Lee Kun-hee. He built the South Korean conglomerate into a $280bn giant....
...The private collection of the late Samsung chair Lee Kun-hee, which contains more than 23,000 artworks, was donated to South Korea’s national museums in 2021 in the hope that it could be accepted as a payment...
...Unlike his father Lee Kun-hee, the son is no business genius....
...He credits South Korea’s “long history of art collecting”, for example the late Samsung group chair Lee Kun-hee, whose collection of 23,000 items was donated to national museums recently....
...But Lee Hee-ja, a representative for victims, said that “what the victims’ families want to see is the Japanese government and companies sincerely apologise to the victims”....
...Min Ji-hee, a credit analyst at Mirae Asset, cautioned that the credit squeeze could worsen if the BoK opted for another outsized rate increase later this month....
...Lee, who had served jail time over a bribery conviction but received a presidential pardon in August, fills a position that had been vacant since the death of his father, Lee Kun-hee, in 2020....
...Lee Min-hee, an analyst at BNK Securities, estimated that Samsung’s smartphone shipments had fallen about 16 per cent quarter on quarter to 62mn units in the second quarter....
...Chief executive Han Jong-hee apologised at Samsung’s shareholder meeting last month and upgraded its software to allow customers to switch off the GOS app....
...He promoted Han Jong-hee, head of Samsung’s visual display business, to take charge of the new division....
...He promoted Han Jong-hee, head of Samsung’s visual display business, to take charge of the new division. Read more about the Samsung reshuffle....
...Key developments: Lee has spent the last four years in and out of prison, due largely to his determination to succeed his father, Lee Kun-hee, who ruled Samsung for almost three decades before he was hospitalised...
...Park, 69, is the daughter of General Park Chung-hee, who seized power in a coup in 1961 and ruled South Korea as an authoritarian president between 1963 and 1979....
...The implications of this law were brought home to many foreign executives after Samsung’s ruling Lee family had to pay an $11bn tax bill after the death last year of former chair Lee Kun-hee....
...Lee Seok-hee, SK Hynix chief executive, told reporters on Monday that his company would respond to the US concerns “wisely while co-operating with interested parties”....
...Critics allege the company has been hamstrung from pursuing further deals because its 53-year-old scion was distracted by legal problems relating to his succession from Lee Kun-hee, his late father....
...That same year, Lee Kun-hee steered Samsung’s top engineers towards mastering how to transfer millions of metal-oxide-semiconductor transistors on to a single computer chip, a new process that would help...
...Lee Kun-hee’s estate includes shareholdings in Samsung Electronics as well as smaller businesses such as Samsung Life Insurance and Samsung C&T....
...Lee Kun-hee, who transformed South Korea's Samsung into one of the world’s biggest technology groups, died on Sunday at the age of 78....
...When revered industrialist Lee Kun-hee died last year, the patriarch left behind a fortune estimated at about $20bn....
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