hangul: 삼성; Hanja: 三星;
allegedly their tvs do a lot of listening. Started out as a food trading business during the Japanese occupation.
The billionaire boss of South Koreas Samsung empire will be freed from jail on Friday after serving part of a 30-month sentence for bribing former South Korea president Park Geun-hye.
Lee Jae-yong, Samsungs vice-chairman and de facto leader, will be released on 13 August, the countrys justice minister announced in a live TV briefing.
Lee was caught up in a huge corruption scandal that brought down the government Park in 2016. Park was sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined 18bn won (£12m).
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/09/samsung-boss-to-be-freed-from-jail-after-bribery-sentence
Can't live with him, can't live without him.
allegedly, Kim Gun-hee the wife of the current conservative presidential candidate Yoon Seok-yeol named herself after Lee Gun-hee, the former CEO of Samsung, when she changed her name.