⁍ Lee Kun-hee helped grow his father’s noodle trading business into a powerhouse.

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⁍ He died with his family by his side, including his son, Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee.

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⁍ Lee is the latest second-generation leader of a South Korean family-controlled conglomerate to die.

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– Lee Kun-hee, the 78-year-old chairman of Samsung Group, South Korea’s biggest conglomerate, has died after a six-year hospital stay for a heart attack. Lee, whose father founded the conglomerate as a noodle trading business, helped transform Samsung Electronics into the world’s biggest technology firm, Reuters reports. “Chairman Lee was a true visionary who transformed Samsung into the world-leading innovator and industrial powerhouse from a local business,” Samsung said in a statement. “His 1993 declaration of ‘New Management’ was the motivating driver of the company’s vision to deliver the best technology to help advance global society.”