THE LIVES OF THE RICH AND famous are news fodder everywhere. But in South Korea it's an expected death that has the country enthralled. The country's wealthiest person, the 77-year-old chairman of tech giant Samsung Electronics Co., has been incapacitated since a 2014 heart attack, and the local press frequently speculates about his health: "He's Breathing," "Death Rumor," "Who Has the Details?" In court two years ago his son said, "When the chairman was alive," then corrected himself: "When the chairman was healthy."
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