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...“This South Korean government won’t be sorry to see it go.”...
...Former South Korean president Lee Myung-bak will be pardoned after serving almost four years of a 17-year sentence for corruption, embezzlement and bribery, the country’s justice ministry has said....
...In 2022, the company reported a 38.5 per cent rise in operating profit as sales rose 20.9 per cent to Won 848bn. “For Hybe, the key is to diversify its content,” said music critic Kim Young-dae....
...In 2015, Chey Tae-won, head of SK Group, South Korea’s third-biggest company, was pardoned by Park. However, the issue of pardons deeply divide South Koreans....
...Conservative opposition candidate Yoon Suk-yeol has narrowly won South Korea’s presidential election, marking a turning point for the world’s tenth-largest economy after a bitter and closely-fought campaign...
...But the necessary changes to offshore won trading and short selling are not mere technicalities to be ticked off....
...The conservative candidate Yoon Suk-yeol, who narrowly won the election on Thursday, has called for Seoul to step up its military deterrence of North Korea and pursue closer security ties with the US....
...Korean viewers were further incensed when two young speed skaters were disqualified from the semi-final of the men’s 1,000m competition, which China eventually won....
...Lee Jae-myung, who won the ruling party’s primary race this weekend, has vowed to progressively roll out the policy over his five-year term if he wins the presidential election in March, potentially making...
...Yoon, who led a sweeping probe into former president Park Geun-hye’s corruption scandal in 2016, won popularity among conservatives with his investigations into Moon’s political aides and government officials...
...Robert Lighthizer, the US trade representative, said Washington would block Okonjo-Iweala in favour of the Korean candidate, Yoo Myung-Hee, for suspiciously vague reasons....
...“They are not targeting any specific country or region; they are trying to go global,” says Kim Myung-soo, KEPA director....
...After speaking to the US government, and not before time, the Korean candidate Yoo Myung-hee withdrew from the race to be WTO director-general....
...Chung Dae-ro, an analyst at Mirae Asset Daewoo Securities, projects the company’s market value could reach Won5tn....
...Donald Trump won’t be happy. But when is he ever anyway? That’s the thing....
...Not so Yoo Myung-hee, the Korean candidate, to whom both Tokyo and Beijing have reasons to object....
...Son Myung-hwa was born in North Korea in 1962 to a father who had been abducted by North Korean forces as a prisoner of war and spent his life as a forced labourer in a coal mine near Musan by the Chinese...
...(FT) Nobel Peace Prize The UN’s World Food Programme has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize....
...It won’t get through in this form: lobbying from the US pharmaceutical industry will see to that....
...Given the great unknown of whether the Americans actually want to play nicely with others rather than sabotage the whole selection process to make a point, we won’t be coming back from holiday anticipating...
...Yoo Myung-hee, South Korea’s trade minister, will visit Washington this week to press Seoul’s case with White House officials, members of Congress and US trade representatives, before the US president pushes...
...Kim later won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work of reconciliation with North Korea and other neighbours....
...“We are facing difficulties due to the burden of this new export approval process, and the uncertainties that this new process would bring,” vice-president Lee Myung-jin said during a call to discuss its...
...“The issue is about which one is more important: people’s right to know versus companies’ trade secrets,” said Baek Do-myung, professor at Seoul National University....
...After the countries’ first summit in June 2000, South Korea’s then president Kim Dae-jung won a Nobel Peace Prize for his “Sunshine policy” of engagement with the North....
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