When International Olympic Committee members arrived in Prague to vote, they found the city festooned with blue-and-white Samsung banners. And in 2008, Mr. Lee stepped back from the I.O.C. The Olympic committee reprimanded him but reinstated his membership in 2010. “We are delighted with the news,” Park Yang-chun, an official with the Korean Olympic Committee, told reporters then. “This is a victory for our whole nation,” the normally stony Mr. Lee told reporters, his eyes wet with tears.

Source: International New York Times February 07, 2018 07:40 UTC