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...Kim Il Sung’s commandos in 1968 infiltrated South Korea and attempted to assassinate the president Park Chung-hee but failed after a bloody gunfight near the Blue House grounds....
...In addition, the vice-chairmen in charge of personnel management and strategy planning — Kim Yong Hwan and Chung Jin Haeng — would be moved to other group affiliates, taking charge of the steel and construction...
...Chang Yun Chung, 100 Chang Yun Chung, the world’s oldest billionaire since the death of David Rockefeller in 2017 at the age of 101, has always been a bit of a late starter....
...So our political leaders could not be free of the deep-rooted chain of corruption,” said Chung Sun-seop, head of corporate watchdog Chaebul.com....
...In 2011, for example, pastor Kim Chang-hwan was killed by a poison needle while waiting for a taxi in the Chinese city of Dandong....
...Military-era leaders Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo were jailed in the mid-1990s but subsequently pardoned....
...Ms Park, the daughter of former South Korean President Park Chung Hee, has denied any wrongdoing, saying that “the truth will be definitely unearthed”....
...Ms Park, the daughter of former South Korean President Park Chung Hee, became the first former South Korean leader to be put behind bars since military-era leaders Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo, who were...
...Lee Joong-hwan, Ms Park’s lawyer, said she did not plan to appear at court on Thursday and would probably not testify during the trial....
...But he truly rose to prominence in the years after the authoritarian leader Park Chung-hee pushed through a new constitution in 1972 that in effect granted him absolute power....
...Following the assassination of Park Chung-hee — dictatorial ruler since his coup in 1961 — power fell to Chun Doo-hwan, another army general, who placed the entire country under martial law, “closing universities...
...“The fundamental problem of global oversupply of oil products remains unchanged,” says Chung Chul-khil, chief executive of SK Innovation....
...Lee Kun-hee, chairman of Samsung Electronics, and Chung Mong-koo, chairman of Hyundai Motor, both received suspended prison sentences for financial crimes and were later pardoned....
...“The frequent reshuffling shows he is in full control,” says Chung Young-tae, a researcher at the Korea Institute for National Unification....
...Kia has called for the resignation of Chung Mong-koo, the 76-year-old chairman of the group....
...Ms Park twice failed to replace Mr Chung when her nominations withdrew amid criticism over their past behaviours....
...This priority has been underscored since the July appointment as finance minister of Choi Kyung-hwan, whose energetic policy making has been dubbed “Choinomics” by local media....
...Optimists were encouraged this summer when Choi Kyung-hwan, the new finance minister, announced tax proposals aimed at discouraging cash hoarding by corporations....
...She appointed Choi Kyoung-hwan, a three-term lawmaker and a former commerce minister, as the new finance minister and replaced six other cabinet members in a renewed bid to boost growth in Asia’s fourth-largest...
...The successive regimes of Generals Park and Chun Doo-hwan oversaw Korea’s astounding rise from a backwater to a major export-led economy of east Asia....
...Chun Doo-hwan, 82, took power after a military coup in 1980 and ran the country until 1987....
...North Korean activity in South Korea is less conspicuous than during the cold war years, when its agents made repeated attempts to murder former leaders Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-Hwan....
...Chung Young-tae, a researcher at the Korea Institute for National Unification, said it was unlikely that pressure from Beijing or any other foreign state had prompted Pyongyang’s announcement....
...“The spectre of the [Korean] Central Intelligence Agency from the authoritarian administration of Park Chung-hee is still haunting Korea,” she said in remarks that target General Park’s daughter, Park Geun-hye...
...Choi Kyung-hwan, the minister of knowledge and economy, pledged to focus on technology innovation and personnel training to meet the country’s ambitious export target....
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