The shadow CEO of Samsung, Jay Y Lee, was charged and convicted of bribing the former president of South Korea to grease the wheels and get a Samsung corporate merger approved. But now he’s free. South Korea’s current president Yoon Suk-yoel, pardoned him. Samsung, it’s no secret, is a corporate leviathan in South Korea that accounts for a lot of the country’s economic success. Many believed that Jay Y. Lee’s imprisonment could stymy Samsung’s potential.Geoffrey Cain is the author of “Samsung Rising,” which is all about the company’s enormous success and the family behind it.
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