A spokesman for the South Korean court said that Lee Jae Yong, vice president of Samsung Electronics, would be exempted from attending a hearing on his accounting fraud case on Friday because it clashed with the schedule of U.S. President Biden's visit to the semiconductor factory in South Korea "According to the regulations, in order to protect the right of defense, the defendant must attend, but the Seoul Central District Court agreed to Lee Jae Yong's request for non attendance on the grounds that the witness testimony could be recorded and the defendant could be notified," the spokesman said
According to South Korean media reports, Lee Jae Yong is expected to accompany Biden to visit the world's largest semiconductor factory in pingze City, about 50 kilometers from Seoul. This will be Li Zairong's most eye-catching public appearance since his parole last August.