According to the Hollywood Reporter (THR), filmmaker 'Lead Rider' Albert Kim is cherished to make a film in which the actors are mostly Asian.The movie revolves around a Korean family electronics company that has been hit hard by the death of its leader before the launch of its subsidiary in the United States. new inheritance. Kim gets ideas from South Korean chaebols, many multinational and multinational companies such as Samsung are run by a family that conducts disputes over inheritance. "
In fact, Samsung is run by the Lee family, which is known for many scandals in Korea. Samsung's current president Lee Kun-hee has held this position since 1987, after founder Lee Byung-chul Samsung's father died. Lee Kun-hee was found guilty of bribery in 1996, evading taxes and being unfaithful in 2009, yet he has never been arrested or jailed. These offenses were later removed by the presidential pardons.
Lee Kun-hee resigned in 2009 in a scandal involving black funds. In 2014, a heart attack severely damaged his health, and since then, his son Lee Jae-young has played the leading role in the company, in fact, the president of Samsung. is still Lee Kun-hee.
Lee Jae-young quickly got into trouble in January, Korean prosecutors sought to arrest Samsung's vice president for alleged corruption. Lee is accused of paying bribes to a nonprofit linked to South Korea's defunct president, Park Geun Hye, to accept the merger of Samsung's two subsidiaries, Chiel Industries and Samsung C & T. by 2015. The amount of bribes investigated by prosecutors amounts to $ 36 million.Lee was arrested and prosecuted shortly thereafter along with many other company leaders. In August, just after two days of Note 8 was introduced, a court in Korea declared Lee to be ineligible for corruption, misappropriation, embezzlement and theft of property outside of Korea. Lee was sentenced to 5 years in prison.
