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...Shin said the Chai payment system cut ties with Terraform Labs in 2020....
...Shin Dong-bin, chair of Korean retail giant Lotte Group, who received a suspended 30 month sentence in 2018 for bribery, will also receive a pardon....
...*Lee Young-eun’s name has been changed to protect her identity. Additional reporting by Song Jung-a in Seoul...
...Shin Yul, professor of politics at Myongji University in Seoul, said next year’s polls looked set to be “dominated by populism”....
...Shin Dong-bin has also been embroiled in an acrimonious battle with older brother Shin Dong-joo for control of the group — a spat that spooked investors and put the spotlight on the company’s opaque structure...
...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....
...“Tycoons such as Lee Jae-yong and Shin Dong-bin have been released from jail and Mr Moon is embracing them for economic growth....
...In February, chairman Shin Dong-bin was arrested for paying millions of dollars in bribes to a close confidante of former South Korean president Park Geun-hye....
...Lee Jae-yong, chief of Samsung, and Shin Dong-bin, chairman of retail group Lotte, both received suspended jail sentences this year, despite being convicted of paying bribes to Park’s confidante....
...Such thinking was thrown into sharp relief just minutes after Lee’s verdict when a separate Seoul court granted Shin Dong-bin, chairman of the Lotte conglomerate, a suspended prison sentence, despite finding...
...South Korean prosecutors are seeking a four-year jail term for Lotte Group chairman Shin Dong-bin on bribery charges as he is accused of providing Won7bn ($6.4m) to former president Park Geun-hye and her...
...Shareholders of Lotte Shopping and Lotte Confectionery approved Shin Dong-bin’s reappointment as a board director at their annual meetings on Friday, sparking criticism that the country’s family-run conglomerates...
...Lotte Holdings held a board meeting on Wednesday and accepted Shin Dong-bin’s resignation, following a Japanese tradition of convicted chief executives stepping down, the group said in a statement....
...The Seoul Central District Court said on Tuesday that Lotte chairman Shin Dong-bin offered Won7bn in bribes to a sports foundation run by Ms Choi to seek business favours. The Won7bn will be forfeited....
...The Seoul Central District Court said on Tuesday that Lotte chairman Shin Dong-bin offered Won7bn in bribes to a sports foundation run by Choi Soon-sil, former president Park Geun-hye’s long-time confidante...
...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....
...Shin Dong-bin – the group’s chairman – is also embroiled in the bribery scandal that led to the impeachment of Park Geun-hye, South Korea’s former president, as well as the conviction and incarceration of...
...Ms Choi was sentenced alongside Shin Dong-bin, chairman of Lotte, South Korea’s fifth largest conglomerate....
...Among them were Choi Eun-hee, the actress, and Shin Sang-Ok, her husband director, who were taken from a beach in Hong Kong to Pyongyang and forced to produce propaganda films for the regime....
...Last month, Shin Dong-bin, the jailed chairman of Lotte Group, was reappointed as a board member of the retail group’s key affiliates, Lotte Shopping and Lotte Confectionery, despite his conviction for bribery...
...The share price jump came after a move by Lotte chair Shin Dong-bin to sell-down his interest in the company’s retail affiliate, Lotte Shopping, from 13.5 per cent to 9.9 per cent....
...Kim Dong-yeop, military expert and professor at Kyungnam University, said now was the time for the allies to hold the exercises....
...However, minority shareholders protested against the plan, saying they feared the units would be integrated in a way that amassed control in the hands of group chairman Shin Dong-bin and threatened legal...
...This is the true story of South Korea’s glamorous couple, actress Choi Eun-hee and director Shin Sang-ok, and their eight years in captivity at the hands of North Korea’s Kim Jong-il, who had a burning ambition...
...Kim Dong-won, an analyst at KB Securities in Seoul, said: “The personnel reshuffle can be seen as part by Samsung’s attempt to gain an edge in artificial intelligence....
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