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...Tokyo insists that all reparation issues were resolved by a treaty signed between Japan and the government of authoritarian South Korean president Park Chung-hee in 1965....
...“The strong orders don’t get reflected immediately in their sales this year,” said Chung Sung-yop, an analyst at Daiwa....
...“The reality is that there are very few severe cases,” said Jin Dong-yan, an epidemiologist at the University of Hong Kong....
...Additional reporting by Pham Hai Chung in Hanoi...
...“LCD supply is gradually increasing as the chip crunch is slightly easing,” said CW Chung, head of research at Nomura in Seoul....
...Shin’s son and group chairman Shin Dong-bin has hinted at sweeping restructuring at Lotte after profits at its chemical and retail businesses dwindled last year....
...Samsung’s latest investment plan will probably expand the OLED TV market size, said CW Chung at Nomura, noting that OLED TVs still account for just 2 per cent of the global TV market....
...“It is in the US’s own interest to maintain their influence on the Korean peninsula while keeping China in check,” said Kim Dong-yeop, a former naval commander and now professor at the Institute for Far...
...Seoul’s Dong-A Ilbo newspaper gave more details on Friday, citing unidentified intelligence sources saying that North Korea has agreed in principle to accept International Atomic Energy Agency inspections...
...Moon Chung-in, South Korea’s presidential adviser, said on Monday that it would be difficult to justify the presence of 28,500 US troops in South Korea, if a peace treaty was signed to replace the 1953 armistice...
...The announcement came after the country’s finance minister Kim Dong-yeon visited Hyundai’s research centre for environment-friendly cars to encourage the carmaker to accelerate future-oriented vehicle development...
...Kim Dong-yeon, South Korean finance minister, earlier this month asked the IMF to assist with his country’s push to help North Korea carry out economic reforms....
...“This is nonsense,” said Chung Sun-seop, who heads corporate analysis group Chaebul.com. “Many of Korea’s ‘owner family’ members still run the companies even as they stand trial....
...“Her comeback is outrageous,” said Chung Sun-seop, head of corporate analysis group Chaebul.com....
...The pledge came during as Kim Dong-yeon, the finance minister, visited Hyundai’s research centre for environment-friendly cars to encourage vehicle development....
...Vietnamese state-controlled media reported on Tuesday that aviation authorities fined VietJet 40m dong, or less than $2,000 on flight safety grounds....
...“Eui-suk Chung has been appointed . . . as part of efforts to enhance resources to the Bixby service,” the company said....
...Once a rundown poor area, the Yeonnam-dong neighbourhood now has some of Seoul’s best bars, cafés and restaurants....
...Dong-ik, analyst at KB Securities, noting that major Korean shipyards have less than a year of order backlogs....
...On Monday, prosecutors also charged Shin Dong-bin, chairman of South Korean conglomerate Lotte Group, with bribery....
...Also on trial on Tuesday was Shin Dong-bin, the chairman of Lotte, South Korea’s fifth-largest conglomerate....
...“It’s not good etiquette to the justices, and also inappropriate for the president, as the defendant [in] the impeachment trial, to say this and that to the media outside of court,” Kweon Seong-dong, the...
...South Korean prosecutors said they were seeking an arrest warrant for Shin Dong-bin, Lotte Group chairman, over allegations of embezzlement and breach of trust concerning Won170bn ($153m) amid a corruption...
...At 127,600 dong a share, that values the company at about $1.3bn, according to a regulatory filing last week....
...Leadership, says Chung Sun-sup, head of corporate analysis group Chaebul.com, has unravelled since chairman Lee Kun-hee was hospitalised in May 2014....
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