SEOUL -- Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, who has served 60% of his 30-month jail term for corruption, will be granted parole on Friday, South Korea's justice ministry announced on Monday.
The ministry said that Lee was included in the list of 810 prisoners to be released on the occasion of Liberation Day which falls on Sunday. The nine-member Parole Review Committee, chaired by Vice Justice Minister Kang Sung-kook, hosted a four-hour meeting in the afternoon to discuss the matter.
