South Korea's richest man died in a Seoul hospital on Sunday, leaving behind a fortune of $ 17.3 billion.
And a global group, representing alone a fifth of the GDP of his country: Samsung.
Lee Kun-hee, died at age 78, after six years in a coma, in which he had suffered a heart attack in May 2014. He was still, very symbolically, the president of Samsung Electronics, the technological jewel of his empire.
“President Lee was a true visionary who transformed Samsung from a local company to a global leader in innovation and industrial power.
Its heritage is eternal, ”
said the company.
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It was his father, Lee Byung-chul, who founded Samsung in 1938, a local trading company specializing in the export of dried fruit and fish before expanding to a range of products ranging from insurance to shipbuilding to electronic products
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