Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-Hee passes away At 78

Lee Kun-hee, the chairman of South Korea’s largest conglomerate, Samsung Group, has passed away. He was 78.
Lee helped to transform Samsung from a small trading business to become the world’s largest producer of smartphones and memory chips.
The firm’s overall turnover today is equivalent to a fifth of South Korea’s GDP.
Lee was also the richest person in South Korea, according to Forbes, with a net worth of nearly $21bn (£16bn).