Lee Yoon-hyung
Posted on 11/29/2005 2:38:24 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
The following is some background information, some of which is also covered in the article above. This is from my comment from a related previous thread.
The founding family of Samsung is in a real mess, some of which is its own creation. They once made bet for a conservative presidential candidate. After Roh Moo-hyun took over, the new government doggedly go after "irregular" transactions which allowed Lee Keun-hee's son to eventually take over the control of Samsung group. After 2 years of sparring, the government and Samsung group suddenly made up their difference. The government relented their pressure, and appointed Lee's brother-in-law Hong Suk-hyun as an Korean ambassador to U.S., who is to work as Roh's front man in D.C.. About a year before, JoongAng Ilbo, erstwhile conservative daily, suddenly changed its tone and declared that it would take a "moderate" line. Mr. Hong is the owner of JoongAng Daily.
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.
Ping!
Photos?
Me, I'm an old guy who's learned how to be a hermit, and like it.
Lee Yoon-hyung
Of a dead lady?
I'll say she did.
(Sorry -- couldn't help posting a tasteless comment.)
This must be the ultimate 'poor little rich girl' tale.
Photo's of what?
Exactly....a pretty strange request....glad someone else noticed it.
There's a picture on this website: http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2005/11/26/the_curious_dea.php
I don't know how to append it to Freerepublic.com
There someone posted her photo...did it satisfy you.
She must have had mental problems...young, pretty, loaded with $$$ and she was lonely?
not nearly as much as the miscellaneous comments.
Tragic. I suppose money really can't buy happiness. Not a lot of good news for a father in a hospital bed.
Come on. You know as well as anybody that nobody wants pictures of a dead woman. Pictures of the living person prior to death may be helpful if the name is unrecognizable.
Holy cow. The rich are crazy.
OK if you say so......thanks for setting me straight.
/sarcasm.
Those dang Asian cultures, so fixated on suicide.
She should have assimilated. Here in America, we just shoot the parents who oppose it.
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