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Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y. Lee speaks as he is released on parole from Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, South Korea on Aug. 13, 2021. Yonhap via Reuters
U.S. President Joe Biden will visit South Korea and Japan from May 20 to May 24, which will be his first trip to Asia as president.
When the visit was still in the planning stage, five South Korean lobby groups called for a presidential pardon to be issued to Samsung Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong.