He published transcripts of conversations between an aide to Samsung Electronics Co. chairman Lee Kun-hee and Lee's brother-in-law that were recorded by national intelligence agency wiretaps.
He published transcripts of conversations between an aide to Samsung Electronics Co. chairman Lee Kun-hee and Lee's brother-in-law that were recorded by the national intelligence agency.
Lee Kun-Hee's wife, Ra Hee Hong Lee, has been the museum's director-general since it opened.
Samsung, the biggest of the bunch, has resisted despite scandals that led to founding-family Chairman Lee Kun-Hee's resignation last spring.
Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-Hee's second daughter, Lee Seo-Hyun, is president of Cheil Industries, which started out in 1954 as a textile manufacturer and later expanded into chemicals and the fashion business.
But the late Lee Byung-chull--the father of Samsung's current chairman, Lee Kun-Hee--started the foundation in 1965 with a personal donation of 1 billion won.
Also accompanying Ms. Park to the U.S. will be a 52-member delegation of business leaders, including Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee and Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Mong-koo.
The scion of one of Korea's most powerful families, Chung is the nephew of Samsung chairman billionaire Lee Kun-Hee.
Lee Kun-Hee, chairman of Samsung Electronics, was convicted of tax evasion in 2009 but also granted a pardon in December 2011.
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Lee Kun-Hee, chairman of Samsung Electronics, was convicted of tax evasion in 2009 but granted a pardon in December 2011.
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Last December, for example, Lee Kun-hee, the chairman of Samsung Electronics and reputedly the country's richest man, had his conviction for tax evasion expunged.
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Lee Kun-hee, the chairman of Samsung, received a similar pardon in 2009, having been found guilty of tax evasion, and was picked to front South Korea's bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
The move to clear the name of Lee Kun-hee, one of the nation's most visible business executives, drew criticism from opposition and governance groups that called it an example of the preferential treatment sometimes offered to South Korea's senior business leaders.
And last year the group's patriarch, Lee Kun-hee, resigned after being charged with tax evasion and arranging for shares in Samsung subsidiaries to be sold to his son at artificially low prices in an effort to transfer control to his heir.
To be included, an individual had to be convicted of tax evasion, or had to accept responsibility for the charges levied against him (as former Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-Hee did in April when he was indicted on charges of tax evasion and breach of trust).
In early March, under pressure from the ailing 59-year-old chairman, Kun Hee Lee (who is rumored to be stepping down soon), Samsung Electronics announced the appointment of Jae Yong Lee, his only son.
Making cars, as the other big chaebol do, was a long-time dream of Samsung's chairman, Lee Kun Hee, and the company has been taking out newspaper ads swearing it would not give it up.
Opposition also began to grow to a key provision of the application for court receivership: Samsung founder Lee Kun Hee vowed to put up 4 million shares of Samsung Life, which represents nearly three-quarters of the 26% ownership stake he holds in the insurer.
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