SEOUL: Lee Kun-hee, The richest person in South Korea and president of Samsung Electronics Co, died Sunday, leaving considerable assets subject to potentially being inherited by his surviving family, as well as inheritance tax. Here’s a summary of his net worth, which according to Forbes amounts to $ 20.9 billion, …
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In February 1993, five years after replacing his father in South Korea’s Samsung Group, Lee Kun-hee, 51, was frustrated that he was not making his mark. He summoned a group of Samsung Electronics executives to a Best Buy store in Los Angeles to check out the reality of the Samsung …
Read More »Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-Hee Dies At 78
Lee Kun-hee was left bedridden from a heart attack in 2014. Seoul: Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee, who transformed the South Korean company into a global tech titan, died at the age of 78 on Sunday, the company said. Under Lee’s leadership, Samsung became the world’s largest producer of smartphones …
Read More »Lee Kun-Hee, the force behind Samsung’s rise, dies at 78
SEOUL, South Korea: Lee Kun-Hee, the ailing president of Samsung Electronics that transformed the small TV maker into a global consumer electronics giant, has passed away. He was 78 years old. A statement from Samsung said Lee died Sunday with members of his family, including his son and the company’s …
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