Samsung and South Korea: What next after Lee’s bribery conviction?
By DW
20 January 2021 |
11:59 am
The heir to the Samsung conglomerate is going back to jail and South Korea is again examining the dirty intersection of all-powerful "chaebols" and political leadership.
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