SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Jae-yong on Tuesday departed for the United States, raising speculation that he may support ongoing trade talks between Seoul and Washington ahead of a key negotiation deadline this week. Lee arrived at Seoul Gimpo Business Aviation Center in western Seoul around 3:50 p.m. and [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Following a final acquittal by South Korea’s Supreme Court, Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong has entered a new era — free from the legal battles that have dogged him for nearly a decade. Yet the silence from both Lee and the company signals a period of deep strategic reflection, [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — On the eve of a pivotal Supreme Court ruling concerning Chairman Lee Jae-yong, Samsung is maintaining a strict silence, underscoring the high stakes of a case that has shadowed the group for nearly a decade. South Korea’s Supreme Court is set to deliver its final verdict on Thursday on [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Jae-yong has urged executives to adopt a “death-defying” mindset to navigate the intense challenges posed by the new era driven by artificial intelligence (AI), industry sources said Monday. His call was made in a video message delivered to some 2,000 executives of the company’s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Jae-yong received the largest amount of dividends in South Korea last year, a corporate data tracker said Tuesday. Leaders Index surveyed 560 companies, which provided dividends in the form of cash and cash equivalents to their shareholders in 2024 to count up their overall [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – In a move signaling strengthening ties between South Korea and the United States, Lee Jae-yong, the executive chairman of Samsung Electronics, met with a delegation of U.S. senators and the U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, Philip Goldberg, to discuss ways to boost business cooperation between the two countries. The meeting, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The chief of global tech titan Samsung Electronics Co. has remained South Korea’s richest stockholder as the value of shares held by the country’s wealthiest 100 swelled nearly 20 percent over the past year, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong held stocks worth 14.7 [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong has recently met with leaders of global pharmaceutical companies in the United States, the company said Sunday, in line with its efforts to find new growth engines beyond semiconductors. Lee held the series of meetings with CEOs from five major companies: Joaquin Duato [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong has visited a semiconductor components manufacturing site in China run by a Samsung affiliate, the company said Sunday, in the first such trip to the neighboring country in three years. Lee visited the manufacturing facility in Tianjin, operated by Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., on [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s new Chairman Lee Jae-yong called on employees Thursday to rise up to challenges and to focus more on technology development. “Now is time for us to mount more bold challenges. Our survival depends on future technologies,” he said in a message posted on the company’s internal [...]