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1. News - Asia - SOUTH KOREA

   Samsung boss Lee Kun-hee wins US$4b in inheritance row

   Posted Feb 02nd 2013, 12:00am by AGENCIES

   ... a ruling against Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee could have resulted in the unravelling of a cross-shareholding structure that allows Lee, who is South Korea's richest person, to control ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1141371/samsung-boss-lee-kun-hee-wins-us4b-inheritance-row
2. News - Asia - SOUTH KOREA

   Outgoing South Korean president pardons former aides

   Posted Jan 30th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... News Asia Lee Myung-Bak Pardon Bribery Corruption Agence France-Presse in Seoul Lee Myung-bak rejects criticism for releasing confidantes jailed for bribery and vote-buying Brushing off criticism from his successor, South Korea's outgoing president Lee Myung-bak yesterday pardoned a host of former close aides and confidantes jailed for corruption. The pardons for 55 people ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1138817/outgoing-south-korean-president-pardons-former-aides
3. JUDGES' CHOICE

   Posted Nov 18th 2004, 12:00am by Michael Taylor

   ... China (Suitcase House) Design Leadership Award Lee Kun-hee, chairman and chief executive, Samsung Corporation World's Outstanding Chinese Designer Award Kan ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/478584/judges-choice
4. Korea's great abdication

   Posted Apr 26th 2008, 12:00am by Andrew Salmon

   ... Business Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee steps down and all eyes have now turned to his son, writes Andrew Salmon In the closest event the 60-year-old republic has seen to a royal abdication, South Korea was agog on Tuesday morning as scandal-struck Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee announced his resignation. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/635328/koreas-great-abdication
5. Lowest of the low

   Posted Nov 21st 2003, 12:00am by B.J. Lee

   ... not affect the otherwise solid business sector. Mr Lee is probably still wishing the same. ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/435388/lowest-low
6. S Korea on right path to rooting out graft

   Posted Apr 23rd 2008, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... under Lee over two decades that now sees it accounting for 21 per cent of the country's exports has earned him near heroic status. For him to give up the reins would seem to send a strong ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/634798/s-korea-right-path-rooting-out-graft
7. Awards pay tribute to winners' role in shaping lifestyles in Asia

   Posted Nov 18th 2004, 12:00am by Michael Taylor

   ... of the importance of design in the corporate and public world, the Design Leadership Award was presented to Lee Kun-hee, chairman and chief executive of Samsung. Since he was appointed chairman in 1987, the group's sales have increased ninefold and its net income has grown 54-fold. The value of its stock also grew 126-fold. 'Over the years, Mr Lee has transformed Samsung to play a leading ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/478585/awards-pay-tribute-winners-role-shaping-lifestyles-asia
8. LORDS OF THE RINGS

   Posted Jul 03rd 2005, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Ali (Pakistan), Ung Chang (North Korea), Gunilla Lindberg* (Sweden), Julio Maglione (Uruguay), Lee Kun-hee (South Korea), Hein Verbruggen (Netherlands), Guy Drut (France), Ottavio Cinquanta* ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/506873/lords-rings
9. Three jeers for 'Asian' Games

   Posted Jul 10th 2011, 12:00am

   ... in Korea as a massive coup and well it should be. In fact, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak thinks their victory has much larger implications. Lee claimed this week that it was 'his duty ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/973010/three-jeers-asian-games
10. Samsung stressed as chief stays in US

    Posted Sep 30th 2005, 12:00am by Andrew Salmon

    ... - family-owned conglomerates - in financial subsidiaries. Mr Roh also criticised Mr Lee's opaque transfer of Samsung bonds to his son, Lee Jae-yong, a move apparently aimed at ensuring ...

    http://beta.scmp.com/article/518349/samsung-stressed-chief-stays-us

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