Business leaders grilled

It’s a rare moment of public reckoning for South Korea’s most powerful business leaders, courtesy of the country’s biggest political scandal in years. Usually cloistered executives from Samsung, Hyundai Motor and six other companies faced grilling yesterday as lawmakers looked into their links to prosecution claims that South Korean President Park Geun-hye allowed a corrupt confidante to pull government strings and extort companies. It is unusual for tycoons like Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong and Hyundai Motor Chair Chung Mongkoo to face public questioning. Major TV channels broadcast the hearing live.