Still Impenetrable: Samsung Heir Lee Jae-yong Avoids Arrest to Mixed Reactions

The months-long scandal [http://35.194.100.85/voices/choi-soon-sil-gate-sad-political-drama/] that has convulsed the top ranks of South Korean politics and business took a turn in the early hours of Thursday, as a court declined to grant an arrest warrant for Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, the country’s most prominent company and the crown jewel of the Samsung Group. Though many civic groups and members of the progressive establishment have decried the court’s decision, bus