B.C. Lee

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194 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 29 Apr

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Lee had appointed his eldest son, E. Mong Yee, or M.H.

Lee, to run the family business.

Like any firstborn chaebol son, M.H.

Lee had been groomed for the top job for years.

everyone assumed he would take over one day.

But things hadn't gone exactly to plan.

Accounts differ about what exactly happened.

According to MH Lee, he ran Samsung for the next seven years and only left because his father couldn't stay away.

But the autobiography of BC Lee suggests that he, the founder, had needed to step back in after just a few months.

Samsung told us M.H.

Lee was never chairman of Samsung, but that he managed some Samsung companies for a period of six months and then stood down voluntarily.

According to B.C.

Lee, his eldest son was a bit of a loose cannon.

B.C.

Lee had received complaints from some of his most trusted executives.

Jaehyun Lee, a reporter at South Korean newspaper Hankyore, is familiar with the founder's version of events.

M.H.

Lee clearly wasn't chairman material.

Not yet.

But then, things take a surprising turn.

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