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Samsung's share price fluctuated in the stock market today (18th) after news that Vice Chairman Lee was arrested.

There were voices in the business community that if Samsung's business activities contracted, it would have a negative impact on our economy.



Reporter Han Sang-woo compiled this content.



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news of Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong's legal arrest, the shares of the Samsung Group were weak.



Samsung Electronics fell 3.4%, and Samsung C&T, the largest shareholder of Vice Chairman Lee, plunged more than 6%, and the market responded sensitively to the uncertainties that the management gap would bring.



The business community, who pleaded for the election of Vice Chairman Lee, was concerned that Samsung's contraction in business activities would have a negative impact on the Korean economy beyond individual companies.



As a professional manager, even if there is no problem with short-term performance, the absence of the total number is inevitable in mid- to long-term strategies such as large-scale investments and M&As.



Faced with the absence of the total number again after three years, Samsung is expected to enter an emergency management system.



When Vice-Chairman Lee was first arrested in 2017, there is an analysis that there will be no big confusion as the system has already changed from the center of the head to the center of professional managers by affiliates such as Kim Ki-nam, Kim Hyun-seok and Ko Dong-jin.



[Park Joo-geun/CEO Score: It may be a bad news in the short term.

Although the execution of enormous investments is postponed, but from a long-term perspective, if Samsung does something illegal, it will show that the total number will be arrested, which will increase the overall external credibility.]



Civic groups should make it clear that the collusion of political and economic power will no longer be tolerated for the chaebol's deprivation of private interests and management succession.



Even in the absence of the total number, Samsung's risk management ability has been put to the test whether it will be able to consistently invest in future growth engines such as artificial intelligence, next-generation mobile communications, and biotechnology.



(Video coverage: Seo Jin-ho, Video editing: Jeong Seong-hun)