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...Chang himself is not afraid to jump into unknown territory — even in the political sphere....
...Moon has apologised for the scandal and provisionally accepted the resignation of Byeon Chang-heum, the country’s land minister who served as head of LH until last December....
...It is not an overnight change, it is a slow evolutionary process,” says Chang. Lee has already vowed not to hand over management of the group to his children....
...People, from business leaders to monks, have in recent days called for Lee Jae-yong to be freed from prison via a presidential pardon....
...Last week, in a denouement that underscored the scandal’s dimensions, the authorities reimprisoned Lee Jae-yong, de facto head of the Samsung group and the nation’s most powerful business leader, for bribery...
...The new rules “will sharply increase our liabilities”, Shin Chang-jae, chairman of Kyobo Life Insurance, told the FT, warning that South Korean companies did not have enough time to prepare compared with...
...He realises that it will be almost impossible to avoid it in the next generation,” Mr Chang said....
...But they also have implications for President Moon Jae-in’s designs for a lasting rapprochement with North Korea and reform of the chaebol, the sprawling companies that dominate the Korean economy....
...Im Chang-hoon, a 30-year-old office worker who had travelled more than an hour from Seoul with his girlfriend to the drive-in, said the outing was a welcome release from boredom....
...The senior statesman’s relatively low-key meetings last week with his South Korean counterpart, Kang Kyung-wha, and later South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in did not result in any major pronouncements....
...Cheong Seong-chang at the Sejong Institute, a think-tank in Seoul, said: “Mr Choe will likely lead the talks with the US from now on. A breakthrough can be expected if he steps forward for the talks.”...
...“It appears the president is going to stick with the current income-led growth policy,” said Yoon Chang-hyun, a former president of the Korea Institute of Finance....
...Since the election of liberal President Moon Jae-in last year, many of South Korea’s institutions have tacked to the left....
...But Yoo Chang-keun, a South Korean businessman, has a cautionary tale....
...President Moon Jae-in has repeatedly voiced his support for gender equality....
...“China has become a big threat to us,” said Chang Kwang-pil, vice-president at Hyundai Heavy....
...Then days after South Korean president Moon Jae-in returned from Pyongyang with concrete proposals to reduce military tension with the North, the command again made its presence felt....
...North and South Korea have set up the first telephone hotline between their leaders a week before Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in are due to meet at a rare summit to discuss de-nuclearisation and a peace treaty...
...Police said on Monday KT’s CEO Hwang Chang-kyu was suspected of either instructing them to do so or at least of being briefed about it....
...“Moon Jae-in has made clear that a blank invitation will not just work....
...Moon Jae-in, South Korea’s president, will meet Mr Trump in Washington on May 22 to co-ordinate their North Korea policy ahead of the US-North Korea summit....
...Jun Byung-hun, one of Mr Moon’s own advisers, was on Monday questioned over bribery claims....
...“Samsung is seen abroad as a successful Asian tech company but people have an ambivalent relationship with it at home,” says Chang Sea-jin, professor at the National University of Singapore....
...“Mr Suh is the key strategist for the upcoming negotiations,” says Cheong Seong-chang, a researcher at the Sejong Institute....
...In South Korea, chief executive Shin Chang-jae, tells how he got into a coffin that was nailed shut. The idea was to emerge, reborn with a new sense of purpose....
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