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...The economic boom continued under Lee’s successors, first Goh Chok Tong and then Lee’s son, Lee Hsien Loong, who came to power in 2004....
...“Just as Korea overtook Japan as the display industry leader, China is likely to outsmart us on the back of its huge domestic market, abundant capital and technological development,” said Park Chong-hoon...
...“There are a lot of conspiracy theories because nobody can really tell what is going on within the PAP and with the internal workings or decision-making,” said Chong Ja Ian, associate professor of political...
...“Asia should always remain an open region,” Lee said at the Boao Forum for Asia in Hainan....
...Sign up to hear from leading FT journalists in conversation with Hillary Clinton, Jamie Lee Curtis, Salman Rushdie and others. Who will win the US-China tech war?...
...It’s clear that Chong knows what a woman wants – or, when she’s indecisive, how to help her choose....
...Those artists, such as Nam June Paik, Lee Ufan and Lee Bul, and the efforts of galleries such as Hyundai and Kukje have stimulated first local, then global, collectors....
...For example, the gallery met Nam June Paik, probably the country’s best-known artist, through Kim Tschang-Yeul, who was studying in Paris, and in July 1990 Paik performed his quasi-shamanic ritual “À Pas...
...Lee Sang-ho, a director at the Federation of Korean Industries, a lobby group for big conglomerates, said “market liquidity is drying up, making it difficult for many companies to sell bonds and pay back...
...Finance minister Lawrence Wong, 49, was confirmed last month as the successor to Lee Hsien Loong, son of Lee Kuan Yew and the current prime minister....
...Chaired by Green MEP Tom van der Lee, it has broken up for the summer but will hear more witnesses between August 29 and October 14, including former and current ministers, NAM executives and victims....
...“It is increasingly difficult for [south-east Asian] countries to have their cake and eat it too,” said Chong Ja Ian, an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore....
...There is a Nam June Paik robot sculpture assembled from TV monitors and other tech devices; an amber-coloured glass horse by Shin Sang-ho (next to a window, to catch sunlight); an intricate spiderweb — like...
...“Korea’s economic policy is ultimately run by its technocrats, and they run the system in a clean and stable way,” says Park Chong-hoon....
...The presidential candidate of the incumbent Democratic Party of Korea, Lee Jae-myung, enters election season with a stated policy of attempting to secure the upgrade from MSCI....
...Finance minister Hong Nam-ki has also privately backed calls to allow Lee’s to return to management, according to people familiar with the matter. The ministry declined to comment....
...So they are gradually accepting some of the radical platforms that were long seen as socialist ideas,” said Park Chong-hoon, head of research at Standard Chartered....
...“Monetary tightening is needed to curb asset bubbles but this will increase the household debt burden, holding back consumption further,” said Park Chong-hoon, head of research at Standard Chartered in Seoul...
...Lee Ju-yeol, the BoK governor, last week called for an orderly and timely exit from record-low interest rates, forecasting this year’s inflation to reach 1.8 per cent....
...The growth rate “proves the economy’s ability to recover is relatively solid,” finance minister Hong Nam-ki said on Facebook, although the weak job market remained a concern....
...Yoon is the first serious presidential candidate to officially join the race, which is likely to heat up in the coming weeks with other officials, such as Lee Jae-myung, the Gyeonggi province governor, expected...
...and Lee Ufan....
...Chong Lee Choo, Kuala Lumpur-based innovation lab and alternative investment director at Affin Hwang Asset Management, said the lack of distribution avenues had been a major obstacle for the growth of the...
...*Lee Min-seo’s name has been changed to protect her privacy...
...On their first night back in ’Nam, our heroes boogie-strut to Marvin Gaye in a bar called, wait for it, Apocalypse Now. The reference is more than an in-joke....
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