In May 2022, this business leader was excused from a court date to give Joe Biden a tour of a chip factory. For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this executive nicknamed the “Crown Prince” who was pardoned for bribing Park Geun-hye (“gun-heh”) in August 2022 to become head of Samsung later that year.
ANSWER: Lee Jae-yong [or Jay Y. Lee; prompt on Lee; reject “Lee Kun-hee”]
[10e] Lee Jae-yong was pardoned by this county’s conservative president Soon Suk-yeol (“suck-yull”).
ANSWER: South Korea [or the Republic of Korea or ROK; prompt on Korea; reject “North Korea” or the “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”]
[10m] Samsung is key to the Chip 4 Alliance, whose closed trade of devices includes those manufactured by this Dutch company. This company’s 200-million-dollar EUV lithography machines are capable of printing advanced microchips.
ANSWER: ASML [or Advanced Semiconductor Materials Lithography]
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