Live on TV: Samsung heir grilled by South Korean lawmakers
SEOUL, South Korea — It’s a rare moment of public reckoning for South Korea’s most powerful business leaders and possibly the worst day for Samsung’s billionaire heir, courtesy of the country’s biggest political scandal in years.
Lee Jae-yong, 48-year-old vice chairman at Samsung Electronics and the only son of the ailing chairman, was shouted down and admonished by lawmakers for the most part of the 2 ½-hour parliamentary questioning on Tuesday morning. Lawmakers questioned him on wide-ranging issues from why Samsung sponsored the family of President Park Geun-hye’s confidante to Samsung’s treatment of sickened workers.