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...Emboldened, I then started a parttime BSc in psychology (statistics compulsory) and ended up working with huge amounts of statistics as a chartered psychologist for over 20 years....
...Lai, who takes office next month, announced last week that Cho Jung-tai, the former chair of the China-sceptic Democratic Progressive party, will be premier....
...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....
...Kim is a career bureaucrat who pulled himself out of poverty after discovering a discarded civil service examination book in a rubbish bin....
...Mr Cho, the economics professor, noted that Samsung has not made a large acquisition since its $8bn purchase of US car technology company Harman in 2017....
...He was generally thought to have received the appointment on the merit of prosecuting members of the Blue House while Park Geun-hye was president....
...In March the fund helped oust tycoon chairman Cho Yang-ho from the airline’s board....
...Cho Yong-joon, a lawyer with law firm Sejong, said the case has tarnished the transparency of South Korean court rulings....
...he paid $6m in bribes to a top aide to another former president, Park Geun-hye....
...“Tycoons such as Lee Jae-yong and Shin Dong-bin have been released from jail and Mr Moon is embracing them for economic growth....
...I didn’t know then about the caves that enabled Osama bin Laden to evade the Americans. I did occasionally wonder why they had come to the FCCJ ball in the first place....
...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....
...Discontent with the conglomerates is at a high following a huge cronyism scandal last year that ensnared then president Park Geun-hye and some of the country’s biggest companies, including Samsung and Lotte...
...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....
...Ms Cho is not alone....
...Mr Shin was found guilty of offering Won7bn in bribes to foundations of the long-time confidant of former South Korean president Park Geun-hye in return for political favours....
...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...
...Ms Choi was sentenced alongside Shin Dong-bin, chairman of Lotte, South Korea’s fifth largest conglomerate....
...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...
...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...
...The prison sentence comes just a week after the country’s appeals court released the billionaire heir of Samsung Group from prison in a similar case involving the country’s former president Park Geun-hye...
...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...
...“I don’t know why I always get questions asking whether our target is too conservative,” company president Mo Bin told reporters last month....
...Also on trial on Tuesday was Shin Dong-bin, the chairman of Lotte, South Korea’s fifth-largest conglomerate....
...On Monday, prosecutors also charged Shin Dong-bin, chairman of South Korean conglomerate Lotte Group, with bribery....
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