The Chosun Ilbo: Lee Jae-yong, Joo Sang-wook Meet Post-Villain Roles
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Lee Jae-yong
Lee Jae-yong is a South Korean business executive who has been chairman of Samsung since October 2022. In 2017, Lee was convicted of bribery, embezzlement, and concealment of criminal proceeds. He served a prison sentence until being pardoned by President Yoon Suk Yeol in August 2022.
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business · South Korean business executive (born 1968) · businessperson · industrialist · also Lee Jae-yong, Jay Y. Lee, Jae-yong
Born 23 June 1968 · Q624109
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2026· 2 entries
TweakTown: Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong visits Taiwan to lure MediaTek away from TSMC
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2025· 4 entries
Digi Times: Three years into leadership, Lee Jae-yong aims to redefine the ‘new Samsung’
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Tech Digest: Samsung boss Lee Jae-yong cleared of fraud charges
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Digi Times: Lee Jae-yong’s global sprint: Samsung chair courts partnerships in US, China, and Japan
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androidheadlines.com: Samsung's Defining Week: Chairman Lee Jae-yong's Legal Battle Nears End
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2021· 2 entries
Lee was convicted for illegally using the drug propofol multiple times between 2015 and 2020 from a plastic surgery clinic
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Jailed Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong wrote a letter announcing plans to move the company abroad” FALSE.
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2020· 2 entries
Career landmark: Chairman of Samsung Group (2020).
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A prosecution investigation review committee took up the accounting fraud allegations together with the allegedly improper merger of Samsung C&T and Cheil Industries, and accepted Samsung's position that no illegal condu
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2017· 1 entry
Lee was convicted of bribery, embezzlement, and concealment of criminal proceeds
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1968· 1 entry
Born 1968-06-23.
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