Samsung Chairman Heart Attack Trains Spotlight on Succession
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Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Kun Hee, who leads Asia’s biggest technology company and helps generate about a quarter of South Korea’s economic output, remains hospitalized in stable condition after emergency surgery following a heart attack.
Lee’s heart and brain functions are in “very stable condition,” and he is being treated at Samsung Medical Center in Seoul with a sedative, Lim Bo Mi, a spokeswoman for Samsung Group, said today. She declined to provide more details. Lee, 72, was resuscitated following an acute myocardial infarction on May 10, Rhee So Eui, a spokeswoman for Samsung Group, said in an e-mailed statement yesterday.