Hints and tips:
...There are empty retail units, vape shops, Brazilian ju-jitsu schools, more vape shops, bored teenagers, deserted shopping malls, several comically large butcher’s shops and still more vape shops....
...Additional reporting by Sherry Fei Ju in Beijing...
...Lee Ju-yeol, the Bank of Korea governor, said in February that cryptocurrency had no “intrinsic” value....
...Opposition lawmaker Lee Eun-jae said legislators were told by the head of the National Intelligence Service that Mr Jo was “protected somewhere”. She gave no further details....
...Lee Jo-eun, a labour activist, said although the indictments of the 32 officials were unprecedented, authorities failed to previously act on multiple reports of the company’s ill-treatment of unions....
...Another artist to watch is Mindset Art Center’s Tang Jo-Hung (b1975), who will have a solo exhibition at the TFAM opening in August. Taiwan’s art market needs young pioneers to stir up changes....
...“Pyongyang, which I last visited seven years ago, has changed so much that I couldn’t recognise it,” said Hyun Jeong-eun, chairwoman of Hyundai Group, in a statement after her trip....
...“Such long-term strategic decision-making for group-wide reorganisation will now be suspended until he comes back,” said Park Ju-geun, head of corporate analysis group CEO Score....
...Lee Ju-yeol, governor of the Central Bank of Korea, warned this week that the episode was among factors weighing on the economy....
..."Even if Lee Jae-yong is arrested, the company could be operated by the three executives who have led the company with no problems," said Park Ju-gun, president of CEO Score, a corporate information provider...
...value through investing to prop up its struggling sister company Hyundai Merchant Marine, and engaging in heavily lossmaking derivative contracts to protect the grip of Hyundai Group chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun...
...“I think there is a pro-North Korean group behind Kim Ki-jong [Mr Lippert’s assailant],” said Lim Eun-ju, 74....
...“There is a need to check these people,” says Kim Soo-chul, an aide to Lee Eon-ju, a lawmaker who is pushing to introduce similar restrictions through amendments to an existing law....
...lawsuit, filed in the Yeoju district court against certain directors of Hyundai Elevator, Lucerne-based Schindler Group alleges that the company lost Won600bn ($556m) in helping its chairwoman, Hyun Jeong-eun...
...Lee Ju-ho, education minister from 2010-2013, believes this indicates the impact of excessive study on mental health, creativity and teamwork skills, and the need to “combat the private tutoring business...
...Chung Yiu-kwong’s Love in a Fallen City turned Chang’s novella into a fine, if rather conventional, dance piece, with the story’s lovers represented onstage by dancers Wei Ching-ju and Yeh Wen-hao while...
...Jo Zhou, manager of Ju Geng, says the popularity of luxury thrift stores has more to do with growing sophistication than with desperation....
...Mr Kim's recent public outings have included trips to a zoo and a glitzy pop concert, and he used the theme park visit to reveal his marriage to a young woman named as Ri Sol-ju....
...North Korean state television showed footage on Wednesday evening of Mr Kim, who is about 29 years old, attending the inauguration of a theme park with his wife, named as Ri Sol-ju....
...From modest beginnings – a rice shop – founder Chung Ju-yung created an industrial monolith....
...He once confessed to Chung Ju-yung, the founder of Hyundai, that he feared his own people might join Americans and South Koreans in stoning him to death....
...“Economic reform is difficult as it endangers the stability of the regime,” says Jo Dong-ho, a North Korea expert at Ewha Womans University in Seoul....
...(Group chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun is also keen to prevent Motor holding 8 per cent of Hyundai Group’s containers business through E&C.)...
...Mr Chung could appear a natural choice to rebuild the empire as he is the son of Chung Ju-yung, Hyundai’s founder. Hyundai Motor has Won5,000bn ($4.3bn) in cash....
...The recent return of ex-premier Pak Pong-ju, a known reformer, is hopeful here. The world’s other demand, denuclearisation, will take longer....
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