Desk column: Time-honored chaebol system draws wide attentionInstead of his bed-ridden father, Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong is practically leading the country’s largest conglomerate, Samsung Group.And people would have believed that his 20-year-old only son would eventually take ov
Vice Chairman Lee warns of crisisSamsung Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, the de facto chief of Korea’s leading conglomerate, sounds like his bed-ridden father, Chairman Lee Kun-hee, in requesting a “sense of crisis.”Samsung Electronics said June 16 that Vice Chairman Lee called for senior executives of