Lee Yoon-hyung
Posted on 11/25/2005 11:19:13 PM PST by HAL9000
Could the daughter have done this out of shame for the family?
They didn't attend her funeral?
That's really sad..
Ms.B
Or was she taken out by his business partners as a warning? Still sad... =(
This could open a big can of worms. Prayers for her soul; I hope her old man rots when its his turn.
Sad story. RIP Lee Yoon-hyung.
oh my God ! what a loss....beautiful women like this should never find themselves lonely
Sad ping.
"...beautiful women like this should never find themselves lonely..."
Except when you're 27 and can't marry the one you love. Very tragic.
Yes.....
and NYU sure has a lot of suicides!
Love vs. Money
Samsung Chairman's Daughter Kills Herself
Parents Object to Her Marriage to "Average" Man
The cause of death of the third daughter of Samsung Business Group Chairman Lee Kun-Hee turned out to be a suicide, according to a local report.
Yonhap news agency reported on Nov. 26, 2005 that Lee Yoon-Hyung, the youngest daughter of South Korea's multi-billionaire businessman, was not killed in a traffic accident but committed suicide by hanging herself.
The report said that the 26-year-old student of New York University (NYU) was found dead in her apartment near her university in Manhattan, New York during the night of Nov. 18, 2005. She hanged herself to death.
Lee, a student of art management at NYU since September this year, had been agonizing over her marriage. Her parents strongly objected to her plan to marry her boyfriend, according to the report.
She had reportedly been suffering from depression since she was faced with her parents' wanton objection to her plan to marry her "layman" boyfriend.
When he was confronted with the high wall of reality, her boyfriend suggested "splitting," according to some local reports.
Lee was one of the five wealthiest women in South Korea along with her mother and two sisters. Lee's fortunes were estimated at 200 billion won (some 192 million US dollars).
Initially, Samsung announced that Lee was pronounced "medically dead" on the morning of Nov. 19, 2005 after she was involved in a "fatal" traffic accident in New York the previous night.
But Samsung stopped short of explaining details including the accident area, witnesses, and other damages or casualties.
Since the announcement there have been many speculations over the cause of her death.
Lee's body was cremated in a Buddhist funeral in New York on Nov. 22, 2005 local time. Her funeral was attended by only her immediate family members including her older brother Jae-Yong, her oldest sister Bu-Jin, and her second oldest sister Seo-Hyun.
Lee's parents Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-Hee and his wife Hong Ra-Hee flew to New York City but did not attend her funeral. They are still staying in the city.
According to Korean customs, parents do not attend the funeral of their sons or daughters when they die unmarried.
Yoon-hyung,
Found hung.
Boyfriend found not hung
So sorry.......
" if you can't be with the one you love , love the one you are with"
Kid come to NYC thinking it's going to be like a very long episode of Friends. If they were the smartest/prettiest/ most popular kid in their high school, they very quickly find out that any good NYC university is filled to the brim with the smartest, prettiest etc.
"and NYU sure has a lot of suicides!"
Yes, they really have been having a lot of those.
Tragic for this poor young woman. May God have mercy on her soul.
Hell, elope. All they can do is kill you.
The government tried to use Samsung's connection and money to shore up its viability, and Samsung wanted the repreieve from government attack on group's founding family. The government may have also wanted Samsung to spearhead N. Korean venture, which is one of the centerpiece to the current government. If that was the case, Samsung did not really bite.
After about 9 months, government's honeymoon with Samsung is abruptly over. Now that growing wiretapping scandal implicates Mr. Hong as a principal bagman and the government effort to paint itself as pragmatic moderate is paying no dividend, it went back to its anti-big business leftist root. The government is demanding Mr. Lee Keun-hee to testify in person.
What the government is doing is not just to go after Samsung. It simultaneously going after the former president Kim Dae-jung under whose tenure much of rampant wiretapping had occurred. Apparently, Roh want to completely control Kim Dae-jung and Kim's loyal support base by turning heat on Kim.
Any way, there is a financial legislation quite unfavorable to Samsung pending in S. Korean legislature, illegal political donation scandal, and latent anxiety of hostile take-over by foreign entities. And now this tragic family event. This must be the worst year for Samsung's owner.
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