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...Successive UK governments have attempted to woo Arm’s Japanese owner SoftBank in an eleventh-hour charm offensive to salvage a London listing....
...The winner of the country’s first democratic presidential election in 1987, army general Roh Tae-woo, was jailed during the presidency of his conservative successor on bribery, mutiny and treason charges...
...Korean actors such as Han Ye-seul, Shin Se-kyung, Shin Min-a and Song Hye-Kyo help promote homegrown brands, she notes....
...Kim Young-woo at SK Securities said LG’s quality problems with batteries produced in its China plant had underscored the need to shore up its supply chain....
...“It is true that Toshiba is a special company, but foreign investors now feel uncertain about investing in Japanese stocks,” says Shin Ushijima, a lawyer and corporate governance expert....
...“The reign of terror has worsened in North Korea as the young leader cements his grip on power,” said Kim Tae-woo, a former head of Korea Institute for National Unification, a think-tank....
...It will be hard for Mr Moon to reverse the slide in his popularity unless the economy improves,” said Shin Yul, a professor of politics at Myongji University in Seoul....
...Such thinking was thrown into sharp relief just minutes after Lee’s verdict when a separate Seoul court granted Shin Dong-bin, chairman of the Lotte conglomerate, a suspended prison sentence, despite finding...
...“External trade volume fell significantly with the exports ban on coal, steel, fisheries and textile products,” said Shin Seung-cheol, a bank official who leads the national accounts data team....
...The two Koreas can talk about economic co-operation but it will be hard to implement anything,” said Kim Tae-woo, now a professor at Konyang University....
...Shin Jong-woo, a researcher at the Korea Defense and Security Forum, a think-tank, said: “Even though the joint military drills can be a hurdle for inter-Korean reconciliation, I believe they are necessary...
...His dictatorship could face a crisis,” said Shin Won-sik, a former deputy commander of South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff....
...Shin Jong-woo, a researcher at the Korea Defence and Security Forum, said: “South Korea falls far short of being properly equipped with reconnaissance assets . . . we are heavily dependent on the US.”...
...“Despite the market view that Samsung is weak in the software sector, the company seems to be conservative about hiring talented people and investing in R&D in the AI area,” said Shin Jin-woo, a professor...
...“This is a total failure of management and monitoring [of classified information],” said Shin Jong-woo, a researcher at the Korea Defense and Security Forum....
...Mr Woo denies the charges....
...Military-era leaders Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo were jailed in the mid-1990s but subsequently pardoned....
...The Seoul Central District Court ruled on Friday that Shin Hyun-woo, head of the Korean Oxy subsidiary from 1991 to 2005, was guilty of criminal negligence for allowing the sale of the toxic chemical product...
...Those who resigned included Woo Byung-woo, senior presidential secretary for civil affairs, who has for months resisted public pressure to step down amid a separate corruption scandal surrounding his family...
...“Rampant corruption may be a reason why our country’s per-capita income cannot surpass the $26,000 level,” said Kim Woo-chan, professor of finance at Korea University....
...Park Kyoung-shin, who served until last year as a commissioner at the country’s communications regulator, says the prosecutors’ demands of Kakao are “so vague and unworkable [as to suggest] the real motive...
...Kim Shin, Samsung C&T co-chief executive, on Wednesday said that the company’s publicity drive appeared to have borne fruit....
...Deep inside the soaring glass towers of Samsung Electronics’ Seoul headquarters, Nam Myoung-woo and his fellow sound engineers laboured for days last year, knocking together pieces of metal and wood....
...“A large-scale shake-up is expected this year, given the company’s falling earnings from most businesses,” said Kim Young-woo, analyst at HMC Securities....
...Although both attacks were eventually repelled, partly thanks to a famous victory won by the Korean naval commander Yi Sun-shin, the Japanese armies took thousands of captives, many of them lashed together...
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