The president of Samsung, hospitalized since 2014, is stable
Samsung's president, Lee Kun-hee, hospitalized since 2014 and out of the public eye since then, is in stable condition, according to sources familiar with his state of health that the agency Yonhap cites today.
The president of the main business group of South Korea, since it generates a fifth of the national GDP, suffered a myocardial infarction on May 10, 2014 and was admitted to the prestigious hospital that Samsung has in the district of Gangnam, in Seoul. .
After undergoing a coronary stent implant, Lee has remained in a private wing of the hospital and has not been seen in public since.
The one who at the time was considered the most powerful man in South Korea is now in a stable situation and is able to breathe without the help of machines, according to the South Korean news agency Yonhap today, citing sources close to the matter.
The people in his charge frequently take him out for a wheelchair ride and, although Lee is still unable to communicate on his own, he does respond to sound and physical contact, the sources added.
The state of health of Lee, who is also president of Samsung Electronics, the most important company of the group, has remained in the strictest of secrets for more than four years and this new information has been released a few days before of his 77th birthday.
Since his hospitalization it has been his son Lee Jae-yong, vice president of the group, who has led the largest "chaebol" (as it is called in Korean to the large consortiums controlled by family clans) of the country and faced the corruption scandal of the " Rasputina ", which erupted at the end of 2016.
The heir of the Samsung empire ended up spending a year in prison for his role in this plot, which contributed to worsen the image in the country of the "chaebol", increasingly criticized for constituting a model that hinders business transparency and favors the excessive concentrations of capital.
