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...“The South Korean government is goading Kim Jong Un to fight,” said Chun In-bum, a retired lieutenant general and former commander of the South Korean special forces....
...Chun Myung-hoon, an analyst at Nice Investors Service, a local credit rating agency, said Coupang’s profitability would remain under pressure while the company focused on expanding its scale....
...The 61-year-old has been accused by opponents of practising what they call “K-Trumpism” after he described a former authoritarian president, Chun Doo-hwan, responsible for the massacre of protesters in 1980...
...Mr Ryu’s father in-law is believed to be Jon Il Chun....
...Roh Moo-hyun — Lee’s predecessor and a close colleague of Mr Moon — committed suicide while under investigation for graft in 2009....
...It is also a step forward that it has promised to dismantle the Yongbyon nuclear facility,” said Kim Jae-chun, a professor at Sogang University....
...In 2007, another liberal South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun extended his predecessor’s engagement policy and walked across the heavily fortified border en route to meet Kim Jong-il....
...South Korean presidents who have been investigated Chun Doo-hwan (1980-88) Cause for investigation: Military coup; crackdown on democracy activists; corruption Outcome: Sentenced to life in 1997; pardoned...
...Chun Yung-woo, a top former South Korean negotiator with the North, said the government’s new tilt was clear from the people with whom the president was surrounding himself, including Mr Moon....
...Kim Jae-chun, a professor at Sogang university and government adviser, said he was not convinced by assertions that the US and South Korea were “in lockstep”....
...Finance is non-existent, says Cho Bong-hyun of the IBK Economic Research Institute in Seoul. “Private sector finance is mostly just loan sharks.”...
...But Mr Abe’s agreement to push for a mutually acceptable resolution was “an important improvement…I thought it wasn’t going to be on the table”, said Kim Jae-chun, a professor at Sogang university in Seoul...
...“Volkswagen’s brand value is expected be hit by this issue as its strong diesel engine technology has been the backbone of its brand recognition,” said Yim Eun-young, analyst at Samsung Securities....
...Such a move was mooted in 2007 under liberal president Roh Moo-hyun but shelved the next year by his conservative successor Lee Myung-bak....
...“The problem was that these companies . . . didn’t have much authority when it came to deciding the details of the projects,” said Park Hi-chun, an economics professor at Inha University....
...“Many SMEs will be pushed to the limit if holiday work is not allowed,” says Chun Hyun-ho, director at the Korea Federation of SMEs....
...“All of us make the same cars,” says Park Hyun-je, head of the labour union of non-regular workers at Hyundai....
...He entered parliament a year later and, ironically enough, gained stardom in a parliamentary hearing into corruption charges involving former president, Chun Doo-hwan....
...Within hours of the suicide of Roh Moo-hyun, president of South Korea until last year, tens of thousands of distraught Koreans had built makeshift memorials....
...“This investigation is wholly intended to gag the press,” said Moon So-hyun from the union at MBC, the channel for which Mr Lee works....
...The recess ends just as Roh Moo-hyun, the South Korean president, begins a summit in Pyongyang with Kim Jong-il, his North Korean counterpart, at which he has expressed a desire to avoid talking about nuclear...
...She advocated democracy under the military dictatorship of Chun Doo-hwan and proposed a bill to scrap the draconian National Security Law....
...Relations between the two sides have been fraught since the Uri party, which supports left-leaning president Roh Moo-hyun, won parliamentary elections in April....
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