| Born / Place | Jan. 9, 1942, in Taegu, South Korea |
| Education | Waseda University, Tokyo;
George Washington University, U.S. |
| Family | one son and three daughters |
| Hobbies | Golf |
| Power Points | The Crisis gave Lee the opportunity to reform and restructure Samsung, offloading redundant units and wiping out debts. The recovery is giving him the chance to reorient. Lee is installing new men for the New Economy, promoting executives in their 40s and early 50s to senior management positions. Lee sees the future and it is digital. Samsung Electronics is shedding its non-digital product lines, while Samsung Corp. is investing $1 billion in the Internet over the next few years. It's a future investors like the look of. The market value of Samsung's companies has doubled since July 1999.
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