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...Oum Kalthoum started by singing religious songs, analogous to gospel-singing....
...“We may be called on,” said Kevin Bong, head of asset allocation at GIC, which invests Singapore’s more than $100bn worth of foreign reserves....
...Lifting the state of war would also have a profound economic impact on the North, said Bong Youngshik of Yonsei University in Seoul....
...“We need total structural changes on every level — the societal level, the government level, the corporate level,” says Eom Chi-sung, deputy secretary-general of the Federation of Korean Industries....
...“There is inevitably going to be some noise,” said Kim Sung-han, a former South Korean vice-foreign minister....
...“Politics is all about making a consensus on contentious issues through compromises,” says Hong Sung-geol, a professor at Kookmin University....
...“With the earlier execution of Jang Sung Taek . . ....
...People can’t stand it, whereas they can stand this driving — bong! bong! bong! — sort of thing. That wouldn’t drive them away but a Mozart symphony would.”...
...It is hard to expect any bottom-up pressure on the regime,” says Bong Young-shik, a researcher at Seoul’s Asan Center for Policy Studies....
...“Then in 1970, I happened to visit a gallery and discovered a beautiful contemporary painting of roses by To Sang-Bong....
...“We are opening up the economy and welcome foreign companies and increased trade,” says Hyon Hak Bong, Pyongyang’s ambassador to London....
...Then Roh Sung-il, head of the MizMedi Hospital and a collaborator in Prof Hwang?...
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