B.C. Lee
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 29 Apr
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It's 1969, three years after a scandal that saw Samsung chairman B.C.
Lee step down from running the company he founded.
And things haven't been much better since.
At a moment like this, I picture B.C.
Lee staring across the tree-lined grounds of his home in central Seoul, a two-story mansion in its own high-walled compound, an oasis amongst the South Korean capital's developing high-rises.
A good place to think.
B.C.
Lee had stepped aside as Samsung's chairman, hoping, it's thought, that this would be enough to spare his family.
Samsung told us he'd done it as a sign of respect for Korean society since it had been his son who caused the controversy.
Whatever the plan, it hadn't worked.
His second son, Lee Chang-hee, or as we're calling him, C.H.
Lee, had been punished with prison.
He'd been in charge of the fertilizer plant Samsung had built at the president's bidding.
The so-called saccharin scandal, the smuggling that took place under the cover of the construction project, had taken place on his watch.
C.H.
Lee had appealed and been released early.
And things haven't been going much better with another of B.C.
Lee's three sons.
In the crisis that followed the saccharine smuggling scandal, B.C.
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