As the news of Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee's death was delivered today (25th), major foreign media were also wired as emergency news.



France's AFP news agency urgently reported, "Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee is dying," and introduced that "Chairman Lee, who transformed Samsung Electronics into a global tech giant, was in bed with a heart attack in 2014."



Bloomberg News, Reuters, AP and Kyodo News also wired news of Lee's death as a breaking news.