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...Lee Bok-hyun, governor of the Financial Supervisory Service, said he believed Seoul has met most of the conditions required by the index compiler after the government eased certain rules....
...Lee Sang-hyun, the former head of Carlyle Korea, claims that he has secured enough support to press for the changes at KT&G as most foreign shareholders, who own 44 per cent of the company, support his proposals...
...“The company has been overtaken by rivals in some areas like AI chips, while Lee has been unable to present a clear vision and direction for growth,” said Park Ju-geun....
...Kyung Kye-hyun, the company’s chief executive in charge of its chip business, said last month that Samsung was close to claiming leadership in HBM chips....
...Bok-hyun....
...“[Lee] could have been treated at Pusan National University Hospital if he were in a life-or-death situation,” Lim Hyun-taek, president of the Korean Paediatric Association, said after filing the complaint...
...“Investors basically invest at their own risk, but the financial firms will have to take responsibility for their acts if they neglected their duty of protecting customers,” said FSS governor Lee Bok-hyun...
...“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....
...Kim’s rejection of the possibility of unification through peaceful means was the logical next step, said Lee....
...“Their investment patterns are highly risky so we are cracking down on leveraged buying and margin call risks,” said Lee Bok-hyun, governor of the Financial Supervisory Service....
...Kyung Kye-hyun, the head of Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor business, said last week that the company had “delivered our concerns” about the initiative to the South Korean government....
...Hyun-seung Lee, a former North Korean businessman who operated in the Chinese port city of Dalian before his defection in 2014, said returning overseas workers were normally subjected to “two or three months...
...Off-site features site-specific installations by Jong Oh, Hyun Nahm, Jungyoon Hyen, Yona Lee, Choi Goen and artist collective GRAYCODE jiiiiin that propose shifting perceptions of public and private space...
...“It’s a boys’ club,” said Ju-hyun, 45, whose name has also been changed. She is the only woman in a team of 20 managers at a prominent South Korean company....
...“We believe the worst quarterly loss from the semiconductor business was in the first quarter of 2023,” said Goldman Sachs analyst Giuni Lee in a report, forecasting that Samsung’s chip division would swing...
...Lee added: “Kim wants to show that the country has no intention of slowing down, let alone giving up, his nuclear and missile programmes.”...
...Park Ju-geun, head of research group Leaders Index, cautioned that Samsung’s performance-driven remuneration policy made it prone to labour conflicts....
...Lee Sang-hyun, the chief of South Korean activist fund Flashlight Capital Partners, has been pushing for the country’s largest tobacco producer KT&G to spin off its ginseng unit and appoint two renowned...
...“Now that he has been freed from legal restrictions, he needs to present a blueprint for Samsung’s future, how he plans to revive growth at Samsung,” said Park Ju-gun, head of Leaders Index, a business research...
...Various international law bonds worth €6.4bn were never restructured, and some aggrieved local-law creditors sued Greece over this legal ju-jitsu. History doesn’t echo but it rhymes etc etc....
...“The company needs to see a recovery in Asian sales for an earnings turnround, given the relatively small portion of its US revenues,” said Park Hyun-jin, an analyst at Shinhan Investment....
...Lee Hyun-sook, who founded Kukje Gallery in 1982 and who has followed the local market for decades, says the young generation is playing a pivotal role in expanding the Korean art scene....
...“For decades, North Korea claimed that its leaders didn’t have any flaws,” said Go Myong-hyun, a senior fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul....
...But Lee Hee-ja, a representative for victims, said that “what the victims’ families want to see is the Japanese government and companies sincerely apologise to the victims”....
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