SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Police said Thursday they have closed a preliminary probe into allegations that a daughter of the Samsung chairman took propofol shots illegally, citing lack of evidence. For the past year, the police had probed the allegations surrounding Lee Boo-jin, the eldest daughter of Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee, after a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Ending a legal fight that lasted over five years, South Korea’s top court said Monday it has reaffirmed a lower court’s ruling accepting a divorce claim filed by Lee Boo-jin, the eldest daughter of the family that owns Samsung. The Supreme Court upheld the lower court’s decision that ordered [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s ruling by granting a divorce to the eldest daughter of Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee and ordering her to pay her former husband 14.1 billion won (US$11.7 million) from asset division. The asset split amount for the ex-husband was an [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Police said Thursday that they launched a preliminary probe into a plastic surgery clinic in Seoul where Lee Boo-jin, a daughter of Samsung Group patriarch Lee Kun-hee, was allegedly given propofol on a regular basis. Investigators from the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency and the public health center in Gangnam [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Lim Woo-jae, the former vice president of Samsung Electronics who reportedly filed for divorce from Lee Boo-jin at the Seoul Family Court on June 29, is suing for a 1.2 trillion won ($1.04 billion) settlement from his ex-wife, who is the former CEO of Hotel Shilla and daughter of Samsung [...]
SEONGNAM, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The husband of Lee Boo-jin, the eldest daughter of the Samsung Group owner family, has refused to go through with their divorce, his lawyer said Thursday. Lee and her husband, Im Woo-jae, has been undergoing trials at a Suwon District Court branch in Suwon, south of Seoul, to decide [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — As Samsung SDS passed the preliminary review for the initial public offering on September 25, it expects to list its shares by November this year. The Samsung Group company plans to hold a public subscription by next month, with shares held by the group affiliates to be sold to third-party buyers instead [...]