SEOUL: A vice-president of South Korea’s largest company Samsung Electronics has committed suicide by apparently jumping from his Seoul apartment building, police and company officials said today. Police said the 51-year old man, identified only by his last name Lee, was found dead yesterday outside the building by a security guard. They refused to confirm news reports that Lee left a note saying he felt heavily burdened at work. “This is a personal tragedy,” a Samsung spokesman said, declining to give details such as the vice-president’s full name. Lee joined Samsung in 1992 and mostly worked at its semiconductor and flash memory division. The company is the world’s largest memory chip and flat-screen TV maker. In 2006, the US-educated Lee won the title of “Samsung Fellow” which is awarded annually to the company’s most outstanding engineer.