Insight - Big strategic decisions await Samsung’s Lee

A worker of South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co., collects a new 17 inch TFT LCD flat-screen computer monitor to be packaged in the factory in Suwon, 46 Km south of Seoul. - File pic

WITH bated breath, management at Samsung Electronics is waiting to see if the conglomerate’s leader, Jay Y Lee, will be released on parole this month.

Support for his parole, both political and among the public, has grown amid anxiety that key strategic decisions are not being made at the South Korean tech giant.