⁍ Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee died on Sunday.

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⁍ Born in 1942, Lee helped grow his father’s noodle trading business into South Korea’s biggest conglomerate.

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– South Korea’s Samsung Electronics says its chairman, Lee Kun-hee, has died of complications from pneumonia at the age of 76, the AP reports. Lee, the only son of the company’s founder, had been chairman since 2009. He is survived by his wife, Lee Byung-chull, and three children. “Samsung Electronics is deeply saddened to announce that Chairman Lee Kun-hee has passed away,” the company said in a statement. “He will be greatly missed.”