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...Min Ji-hee, a credit analyst at Mirae Asset, cautioned that the credit squeeze could worsen if the BoK opted for another outsized rate increase later this month....
...Saehae bok mani badeuseyo (happy lunar new year) from Seoul....
...“Their small scale stops them becoming a serious threat to existing players,” says Chung Hee-soo, researcher at Hana Institute of Finance....
...The daughter of Park Chung-hee, a strongman leader who ruled South Korea for 18 years until his assassination in 1979, she is the closest thing the country has to royalty....
...“Park’s government has not only not reformed [the economy] but has also failed to tackle key issues, such as household debt,” says Seo Bok-kyung, a politics expert at Sogang University....
...There is growing discontent over the economy and the government’s perceived economic policy failures,” said Suh Bok-kyung, a political researcher at Sogang University....
...Minutes from the BoK’s last meeting – at which the central bank cut rates to a record low of 2 per cent – indicated policy makers were paying close attention to the yen....
...“Park Chung-hee was a hero, the best president ever – and she is his daughter,” says the owner of a real estate business, who asked not to be named....
...Kim Jin-hee, a counsellor at the Seoul Financial Welfare Counselling Centre, says that such cases are becoming increasingly common....
...However, presiding judge Kim Jae-bok dismissed Samsung’s claims, saying the conglomerate also benefited from the 1999 deal....
...To even look at a woman’s calf was extremely arousing - when [singer] Yoon Bok-hee wore a miniskirt the whole of Seoul flipped.”...
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