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...Yi So-yeon is formidable as Cassandra and Choi Ho-Sung’s self-pitying Menelaus provides comic relief. The eight-strong all-female chorus captivates, too....
...She is bringing works by more than 30 contemporary South Korean artists to London, including Na Ri Choi, Ha Jin Lee and Sung Hee Kim. “The artists do not pay to participate....
...“It is hard to move bilateral relations forward without resolving the forced labour issue,” said Park Cheol-hee, professor of Japanese politics at Seoul National University....
...After the news conference, Kishida took Yoon and South Korean first lady Kim Keon-hee to two dinners in Tokyo’s upmarket Ginza district....
...They have a lot of money,” said Im Han-kyu, a 55-year-old cleaner. “This wouldn’t make a big difference to their livelihoods because money makes money.”...
...Kim Il Sung’s commandos in 1968 infiltrated South Korea and attempted to assassinate the president Park Chung-hee but failed after a bloody gunfight near the Blue House grounds....
...According to data provided by ruling party lawmaker Im Jong-sung, workers at Coupang Fulfillment Services, Coupang’s logistics arm, filed 239 claims of work injuries to KCOMWEL for compensation last year...
...“We will go through a review process to check the safety and efficacy of the Covid-19 vaccines on South Koreans, given the racial and ethnic differences,” Kim Hee-sung, a manager of the vaccine evaluation...
...The partnerships could help Hyundai diversify into areas such as robotics or even flying vehicles, said Chung Sung-yop, an analyst at Daiwa Securities....
...“We are sending a signal to the North Korean elites,” says Ethan Hee-Seok Shin, one of the TJWG’s co-founders....
...Lee Sung-hee, a lawyer for Sarang Jeil, said the anti-government rallies last month were aimed at “protecting the constitution”....
...Mr Lee, the 51-year-old son of group chair Lee Kun-hee, has led Samsung since 2014 when his father suffered a heart attack....
...“We have heightened our guard and are conducting our drills with more urgency,” said Shim Sung-bo, a navy captain patrolling the area....
...He will succeed Eun Sung-soo who left last year to take over as CEO of Korea Eximbank, the official export credit agency of South Korea....
...Choi Sung-ryong was 15 years old when his father went fishing off South Korea’s west coast and never returned....
...As a young artist he was surprised to be asked by a party official if he could make a statue of Kim Il-Sung, the new country’s founding dictator....
...“The big jump in wages is hitting small merchants hard, raising their cost burden,” says Taeyoon Sung, professor of economics at Yonsei University....
...The melodrama has a hall-of-mirrors glint — deployed as a sleeper agent, Sook-hee goes undercover as an actress, keeping her real job from her sweet-tempered new boyfriend (Sung Joon)....
...“Their small scale stops them becoming a serious threat to existing players,” says Chung Hee-soo, researcher at Hana Institute of Finance....
...The decision also raises questions about Mr Lee’s plans to officially take over the business from his ailing father, chairman Lee Kun-hee, who has been incapacitated since a heart attack in 2014....
...Yet Terry Gilliam does not spare the viewer any details in his production of Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, from the Aryan acrobats in blond wigs to the pile of gassed...
...After attending a prestigious high school in Busan, he studied law at Kyung Hee University, where he organised protests against the regime of strongman Park Chung-hee — the father of the recently impeached...
...Mr Lee has been leading the group since his father and chairman Lee Kun-hee was incapacitated by a heart attack in 2014....
...Mr Lee has headed Samsung since his father and company chairman, Lee Kun-hee, was incapacitated by a heart attack in 2014....
...In December, Park Geun-hye, daughter of former president Park Chung-hee, was impeached by parliament following months of allegations that key presidential policies had been influenced by a so-called “shaman...
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