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...“If Korea’s birth rate remains low, the country will face extinction,” Booyoung chair Lee Joong-keun told employees last month....
...Lee, the grandson of Samsung founder Lee Byung-chul, was also accused of orchestrating a $3.9bn accounting fraud at the group’s biopharmaceutical unit in 2015....
...Lee, the grandson of Samsung founder Lee Byung-chul, is also accused of orchestrating a $3.9bn accounting fraud at the group’s biopharmaceutical unit in 2015 as part of the same case....
...Samsung’s founder Lee Byung-chull, grandfather of the current chair, allegedly declared that unions would be allowed at the company “over my dead body”....
...“South Korea cannot keep watching trade diversion to other countries and be excluded from the global supply chain,” said Choi Byung-il, a former Korean trade negotiator and professor at Ewha Womans University...
...“If the current pension structure is maintained, its incomes will outpace payouts for the next 20 years but the trend will reverse from 2041,” Chun Byung-mok, the committee chair, told a press conference...
...songs to summon laughter and banish loneliness....
...Michael Byung Ju Kim still remembers the conversation that convinced him to set up his own private equity firm in his native South Korea....
...Other successful assassinations include Choi Duk-keun, a South Korean diplomat killed in Vladivostok in 1996, and Yi Han Yong, nephew of late leader Kim Jong Il, who was shot dead in Seoul a year later....
...Krafton, formerly known as Bluehole, was founded by Chang Byung-gyu in 2007....
...“I loved Coupang’s convenience but I don’t feel comfortable as it was made possible by others’ pain,” said Choi Byung-hyun, a 59-year-old retiree, who said he had cancelled his membership with the company...
...The personal collection includes masterpieces by Salvador Dalí, Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso as well as celebrated Korean artists such as Park Soo-keun, Lee Jung-seop and Kim Whan-ki....
...Since 1974 — when Samsung founder Lee Byung-chul and his son Lee Kun-hee shrugged off scepticism from their management teams and bankrolled the company’s first investment in semiconductors — legions of engineers...
...The collection, estimated at 13,000 pieces and valued as high as $2.7bn, includes works by Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Mark Rothko, as well as works by Korean artists Park Soo-keun and Lee Jung-seob....
...Ever since Lee’s grandfather, Lee Byung-chull, started selling vegetables and dried fish in 1938, Samsung has played a unique role in Korean business and society....
...Samsung was a minor player in the global technology industry when he took the helm in December 1987, succeeding Lee Byung-chull, his father and the group’s founder....
...The stock trades at more than 100 times estimated sales, or much higher than some of its peers, according to Eugene analyst Han Byung-hwa....
...Chung Han-keun is expected to face trial in South Korea on charges of embezzlement and hiding assets abroad, prosecutors said....
...“A low-growth pattern has taken root in the economy,” said Min Byung-doo, a lawmaker who presided over the launch of the fund on Monday. “Innovative growth is a task that cannot be postponed....
...This week’s reunions will probably be the last time Lee Byung-ju, a 90-year-old South Korean man, and other elderly Koreans will see their family members....
...Samsung Group has maintained an anti-trade union stance since its establishment in 1938, with founder Lee Byung-chul once declaring that unions would be allowed “over my dead body”....
...“It would have been better if they stressed the urgency of resolving the nuclear issue rather than just reaffirming it as a goal,” said Kim Byung-yeon, a professor at Seoul National University....
...Faced with the public backlash against the ruling, Yoon Boo-keun, Samsung’s vice-chairman, said on Tuesday that the company would engage in “speedy management”....
...“The stock price reflects its strong growth potential as it has been seen as a frontier company that represents South Korea’s new economy,” said Han Byung-hwa, an analyst at Eugene Investment and Securities...
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