- Lee Yoon-hyung
Lee Yoon-hyung (
Hangul :이윤형) was aSouth Korea n millionaire and daughter ofbillionaire formerSamsung Group chiefLee Kun-hee . She committedsuicide by hanging in herAstor Place apartment in theEast Village, Manhattan on November 18, 2005. cite news
last= Baker
first= Al
url= http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/26/nyregion/26crash.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&oref=slogin
title=After Samsung Reports Accident, Painful Details of Suicide Emerge
publisher=The New York Times
date= 2005-11-26 ]Her cause of death was originally reported in both American and South Korean newspapers as a
car crash due the social stigma against suicide, but the actual details were subsequently published after inquiries by reporters fromThe Korea Times . At the time of her death, Ms Lee was agraduate student at theNew York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development , and her father was in the United States undergoing treatment forlung cancer . cite news
last= Marks
first= Kathy
url= http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-high-life-and-lonely-death-of-lee-yoonhyung-517563.html
title= The high life and lonely death of Lee Yoon-hyung
publisher=The Independent
date= 2005-11-30 ] A doorman at her building told reporters that she sometimes stayed in her apartment for a week at a time, and there were reports that her father had forbade her to marry her Korean boyfriend. At the time of her death, Ms Lee had a personal fortune of more than £100m.Ms Lee was a graduate of
Ewha Woman's University inSeoul with a degree inFrench literature . cite news
last= Kim
first= Min-hee
url= http://media.daum.net/foreign/englishnews/view.html?cateid=1047&newsid=20051122235606167&cp=koreaherald
title= Samsung chairman`s youngest daughter
publisher= Daum
date= 2005.11.22 ] She was survived by her parents, her brother, Lee Jae-yong, and two sisters, Lee Pu-jin and Lee Seo-hyun. Her parents did not attend her funeral.References
ee also
Lee Eun-ju
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