이재용, 오늘 국정농단 재판 출석... 부친상 뒤 첫 공개 일정<br /><br />With judicial deliberations on a bribery case involving Samsung Group heir Lee Jae-yong resumed,... Lee is expected to make his first public appearance Monday since his father's funeral to attend the retrial.<br />Kim Hyo-sun reports.<br />Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong is set to attend the trial hearing on his bribery scandal involving former South Korean President Park Geun-hye in the coming hours.<br />This is his first return to court since January,... and the first time Lee is appearing in public after the sudden passing of his father Lee Kun-hee late last month.<br />The process came to a halt with Samsung Group's establishment of an independent law compliance oversight committee in February to monitor whether the group's corporate actions comply with laws and ethics.<br />It was created following the appellate court in Lee's bribery case ordered him to devise measures to prevent company wrongdoings.<br />Monday's retrial will appoint three people to review and evaluate the activities carried out by the committee,... requiring them submit their opinion to the court by end of this month.<br />The court is then expected to consider the results in their final verdict on the reduction of Lee's sentence,... as insisted by Samsung Group.<br />The verdict could be provided before the end of this year,... which could once again put Samsung in a leadership absence.<br />Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News.<br />
