Today, Memorial Ceremony for Samsung Founder Lee Byung-chul... Will Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong Deliver a Message?

On November 19 last year, Lee Jae-yong, Vice Chairman of Samsung Electronics, and Lee Seo-hyun, Chairwoman of the Samsung Welfare Foundation, attended the 32nd anniversary memorial service for Hoam Lee Byung-chul, the founder of Samsung Group, held at the family grave near Hoam Museum of Art in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Changhwan Lee] The 33rd memorial service for Ho-Am Lee Byung-chul, the founder of Samsung, is scheduled to be held on the morning of the 19th at his ancestral tomb in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province.

Key figures from the broader Samsung affiliates, including Samsung Group, Hansol, CJ, and Shinsegae, will gather at the ancestral tomb near the Ho-Am Museum in Yongin to hold the memorial service.

The heads of each group’s family have traditionally held their memorial services at different times, and this year it is expected that they will visit the gravesite at different times in the morning as well.

From Samsung, Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong of Samsung Electronics, former Leeum Museum Director Hong Ra-hee, Hotel Shilla President Lee Boo-jin, and Samsung Welfare Foundation Chairperson Lee Seo-hyun are expected to attend.

Attention is focused on whether Vice Chairman Lee will deliver a message at the memorial service for the late chairman, held about three weeks after Chairman Lee Kun-hee passed away on the 25th of last month.

After last year’s memorial service, Vice Chairman Lee shared a meal with about 50 presidents of Samsung Group affiliates at the Ho-Am Hall of the Samsung Human Resources Development Center and delivered a message. At that time, he said to the presidents, "I thank you for managing the business steadfastly despite the difficult internal and external circumstances."

He continued, "Let us honor the late chairman’s ideology of serving the nation through business and contribute to our society and country," emphasizing, "Let us break the existing frameworks and limitations, gather wisdom, and navigate through the current crisis so that it becomes an opportunity for the future."

Vice Chairman Lee attended the memorial service on behalf of his father after Chairman Lee Kun-hee collapsed in 2014, but was absent in 2017 due to imprisonment related to the political scandal. In 2018, he visited the ancestral tomb with his family a week before the memorial service due to an overseas business trip schedule.

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