EFESeoul 27 Apr 2021 Lee Jae-yong (C), the vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, leaves the Seoul Central District Court in southern Seoul, 08 June 2020, after a hearing on the prosecution's request for a warrant for his arrest. EPA-EFE FILE/YONHAP SOUTH KOREA OUT A South Korean woman walks past an advertisement of Samsung at the Samsung Electronics headquarters shop in Seoul, South Korea, 28 January 2021. EPA-EFE FILE/JEON HEON-KYUN Lee Jae-yong (C), vice chairman of Samsung Group, arrives to attend a sentencing hearing over his bribery scandal the Seoul High Court in Seoul, South Korea, 18 January 2021. EPA-EFE FILE/KIM CHUL-SOO Major South Korean business lobby groups said Tuesday they have petitioned the presidential office requesting the pardon of jailed Samsung leader Lee Jae-yong to protect the economy amid a global shortage of memory chips, the main national industry.