Samsung’s Billionaire Ex-CEO Lee Kun-Hee Checks Out Sony 3D TV

Lee Kun-Hee was a former chairman of Samsung Electronics until he resigned in Spring of 2008 due to involvement with a Samsung funds scandal (which he was later pardoned for). Here are some pictures of him at CES 2010 checking out Sony’s 3D TV experience, but of course he also checked out the other manufacturers booths extensively. Interestingly enough, CES 2010 was one of Lee Kun-hee’s first real public appearances since the whole embarrassing debacle in 2008. Lee Kun-Hee was quite outspoken at CES, stating that “Japan will not catch up to Samsung Electronics.” He also went on to say that “..he is not intimidated by other companies, such as Sony and Panasonic, to outpace them to the question of them gnashing their teeth waiting for the opportunity to rise above.”

Aside from being a CEO for many years for Samsung, he also happens to be one of the top South Korean billionaires with a net worth at more than 3 billion. Lee is married to Hong Ra-hee, currently one of the wealthiest women in Korea, who is also an executive director of the Hoam Foundation. His son is currently vice president of Samsung Electronics, his oldest daughter is a vice president of Samsung-affiliated Shilla Hotel, a luxury hotel and duty free store chain, and his second daughter is the vice president of Cheil Industries.

He also briefly gave a heads up on the third generation inheritance of Samsung Electronics; as reporters crowded around Mr. Lee, he gathered his two daughters and held their hands and said, “I should publicly show off my two daughters” adding more anticipation of Mr. Lee’s intention of the next company leader. When asked whether his two daughters are learning well, Mr. Lee responded saying, “They have lot more to learn and I still feel as though I am holding hands of two youngsters.”

He is the third son of the overall Samsung Group founder Byung-Chull Lee, who started the company in 1938. At the start, his business focused primarily on trade export, selling dried Korean fish, vegetables, and fruit to Manchuria and Beijing. In little more than a decade, Samsung – which means “three stars” in Korean – would have its own flour mills and confectionery machines, its own manufacturing and sales operations, and ultimately evolve to become the modern global corporation that still bears the same name today.

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Jan 2010
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  • realSONYGuru

    SONY NEVER have the need to “catch up” to any Korean rubbish, as SONY is in a different league in terms of techonolgy and innovations, all he meant was sales, well u r ought to sell more when ur products are half of what SONY is charging. what a tool. jaja

  • aks316

    so true bro.. sony is sony and it is still the best brand.. and yes sony never have the need to catch up to any Korean co. as sony is in a different league.. i respect samsung for what they have achieved and done and they are 1 of the best companies no doubt about that but they are not better than sony and they cannot be better than sony and they are not sony.. i dont judge a brand by sales.. even hyundai has more sales than a honda but everyone know honda is far far better than any hyundai product.. i love sony.. SONY RULES! SONY 4 LIFE! SONY NO.1!

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    “Sony is sony ” very true .they make new market .Well koreans products aren't bad at all IMO .or maybe this guy is spying on SOny products lol

  • defend

    I am a big sony fan but the blind fanboy love for the company is embarrassing.

    Why is SONY better than samsung? Sony a decade ago is alot different to today.

    If you think Samsung is inferior please throw away your computer because almost every computer contains superior samsung components.

    Recently Samsungs products are generally the same or better quality than sonys lines which is either outsourced rebaged Chinese crap or expensive specialist equipment . Samsung are pioneers at producing mobiles phones, flat panel displays, flash memory…. while Sonys recent “innovations” include overpriced trash like the the ultra thin Vaio X a $1700 netbook with an atom processor.

  • aus316

    haha ya bro i know people tend to get little blind but i have both sony and samsung products in my house and i have had lots of problem with samsung products than sony.. i have samsung refrigerator, mobile phones, lcd, printer and all of them give problems compare to sony products.. it mite be i got unlucky but i stil feel sony quality is better than samsung.. i have lots and lots of sony products like bravia lcds, vaio laptops, walkman players, psp, ps3, phones, headphones, camera etc.. i have faith in sony products because they have served me well and it doesnt matter if it is made in china or japan.. even apple is made in china but it doesnt make them bad.. but yes samsung has achieved a lot in the last 10 years and i highly respect them.. but given a choice i will still choose a sony product over a samsung product anyday.. :)

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    I can not waitt for this to come out here. No more 3d glasses and paying exorbant fees for 3d movies at a theatre!

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    I also agree with GURU that SONY is such different from all about technology and invention.No big name need for good quality.Consumer is always the biggest advertise ever.so Sony if batter product than Samsung and Because of Ex-CEO of Samsung there is nothing to increase.

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    This samsung man is such an idiot that he forgot, from where did the founder of samsung and himself got their education/College degree………and talking about defeating Japan.

    Lee Byung-chul*, Founder of Samsung
    Lee Kun-hee, ex-chairman of Samsung (Gone to jail for fraud once)

    Both of them are alumni of *Waseda University Japan*

    Japan is Japan & no one can't take its place.

    samsung used to sell fishes before they entered into electronics business in 1985.

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  • SETHH

    SAMSUNG, HYUNDAI, KIA ALL KOREAN MADE CRAP. Koreans are worse than the Chinese. They all hover over Sony’s exhibits stealing ideas and poorly execute the clones. I go to every CES and you should see the Koreans and Chinese like animals stealing ideas and trying to copy Sony. GOOD LUCK BASTARDS.

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