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...Lee Sung-hee, a lawyer for Sarang Jeil, said the anti-government rallies last month were aimed at “protecting the constitution”....
...Koo Kwang-mo, the 41-year-old who inherited leadership of electronics manufacturer LG Group in 2018, has been hit with the biggest tax so far....
...“I can’t remember a time more challenging than this,” says Jun Kwang-woo, a former head of the government’s Financial Services Commission....
...Last year, Choi Kwang, the service’s chairman, told the Financial Times that he did not think it appropriate to use the pension fund’s shareholder votes in response to corporate governance concerns....
...“Investors created the right conditions for Samsung to proceed with the merger,” says Baek Kwang-jae, an analyst at Kyobo Securities....
...Some investors hope the NPS will put pressure on companies to increase returns as it battles to meet its growing liabilities – although its chairman Choi Kwang played down such suggestions this year, warning...
...That compares with stakes of 3.4 per cent and 5.2 per cent for the companies’ respective chairmen, Lee Kun-hee and Chung Mong-koo....
...For Lee In-Hee, who went to Naoshima in 2005 when she was contemplating how to house her collection of modern and contemporary Korean art, it was a revelation....
...entrepreneur and academic whose stance against unfair practices by the elite won huge support among young voters last year, will run in a by-election in Seoul’s impoverished district of Nowon, said Cho Kwang-hee...
...Yoo Kwang-soo of Korea’s Federation for Small and Medium-sized Business also says profit-sharing misses the point....
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