Question

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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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2112.86100%24%5%

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Johns Hopkins AIowa State A010010
Chicago AMaryland A1010020
Cornell BClaremont A0101020
South Carolina AIndiana A010010
McGill AWUSTL B010010
Penn ARutgers A010010
UC Berkeley AVirginia A010010
Ohio State AUC Berkeley B010010
Vanderbilt AMinnesota A010010
Brown ANYU A010010
Duke APenn State A010010
Illinois AFlorida B010010
Georgia Tech AMichigan A0101020
Texas AColumbia A0101020
Yale ARutgers B010010
WUSTL AFlorida A0101020
Georgia Tech BNorthwestern A0101020
Minnesota BStanford A010010
Toronto AYale B010010
Imperial AChicago B010010
North Carolina ACornell A010010