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...“They are growing faster than expected here, selling products at rock-bottom prices,” said Lee Seung-jin, a spokesperson for South Korea’s leading fashion platform Musinsa....
...On Thursday afternoon, SM’s co-chief executive Lee Sung-su — the nephew of Lee Soo-man’s late wife — accused the founder of forcing artists to preach about environmental sustainability while he avoided taxes...
...The proportion of female executives at listed Japanese companies has increased to 9.1 per cent, compared to 1.6 per cent a decade ago, according to the latest government data....
...SM co-chief executive Lee Sung-su — the nephew of founder Lee Soo-man’s late wife — plans to step down from the K-pop juggernaut in March, he announced via video amid a battle between two of South Korea’...
...During his nomination process earlier this year, Korean prime minister Han Duck-soo was forced to deny any involvement in the Lone Star case when working for the Texas fund’s Korean law firm....
...In February, when he was asked about alleged insider trading at Hyundai, the country’s top financial regulator Eun Sung-soo told a parliamentary hearing that he would “take proper measures if there is a...
...Eun Sung-soo, the country’s top financial regulator, told a parliamentary hearing last month: “My honest feeling is that [investors] do not enter [this market]....
...At that time, the 1.75m tall Kim was assessed as weighing about 136kg, according to a biography of the North Korean leader by Anna Fifield, a former Financial Times journalist....
...“What’s going to happen onshore will clearly drive what’s going to happen offshore,” said Soo Cheon Lee, founder and chief investment officer of SC Lowy, a Hong Kong-based distressed credit manager....
...In the mid-1980s, Lee Soo-man, a folk singer studying computer engineering in California, decided to return to his native South Korea....
...“If someone believes it is too big to fail . . . this was a buying opportunity for them,” Soo Cheon Lee, chief investment officer at SC Lowy, said of the recent trading in Evergrande’s securities....
...“The local liquidity in China is clearly drying up,” said Soo Cheon Lee, SC Lowy’s chief investment officer....
...Morgan Stanley expects global car production to fall 1 per cent in 2019, the first drop in nine years....
...“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....
...Lee Soo-hyun, a research associate at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, echoed the sentiment, saying that the core issue not being addressed is the country’s dependence “on exports that are being driven...
...Lee Sang-eun, a professor at Soongsil University, expects the nation’s current unemployment problems will soon give way to labour shortages....
...“Their small scale stops them becoming a serious threat to existing players,” says Chung Hee-soo, researcher at Hana Institute of Finance....
...“Chaebol dominance in manufacturing and distribution raises entry barriers for start-ups,” says Kang Jeong-soo, director of the Institute for the Digital Society....
...Cho Yang-ho decided to acquire a 33.2 per cent stake in the shipping line after a request from his sister-in-law, Choi Eun-young, who was serving as Hanjin Shipping’s chairwoman....
...Hope for older workers will come on January 1, when a new law will require large companies to raise the retirement age to at least 60....
...“It’s a way of saying that no management exists — without him that huge empire can’t make key investment decisions,” said Lee Ji-soo, head of the Law and Business Research Center....
...However, the Swiss company said on Tuesday that the manoeuvring had contributed to an unexplained loss of Won1.2tn ($1.07bn) in shareholder value from 2011 to 2014....
...Lee Ji-soo, a lawyer at the Centre for Good Corporate Governance, said that Hyundai Glovis “from the beginning should not have belonged to the family”....
...Lee Kun-hee, chairman for the past 28 years, has been bedridden since a heart attack in May, leaving effective control in the hands of his son Lee Jae-yong....
...“The younger Lee will have to cut the chain of cross shareholdings to move into a holding company structure, which could help boost his credibility,” says Lee Ji-soo, lawyer at the Center for Good Corporate...
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