In this July 6, 2011, file photo, Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee, right, greets people from the South Korean delegation in Durban, South Africa, for the 123rd International Olympic Committee (IOC) session. The Samsung Electronics chairman who transformed the small television maker into a global giant of consumer electronics, has died, a Samsung statement said Sunday (Oct 25, 2020). He was 78. - AP
SEOUL, Oct 25, 2020 (AFP): South Korea's richest and most powerful industrialist, Lee Kun-hee, turned Samsung Electronics into one of the world's biggest tech companies but lived a reclusive existence.
Still, occasional pronouncements on business by the tycoon, who died at 78 on Sunday, reverberated through the country.
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