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...“This is a matter of the country’s survival,” said opposition leader Lee Jae-myung as he announced his party’s programme in January....
...“I was sitting there going, oh my God, oh my God,” she said. “There was no subtlety or lead up. It was just there all of a sudden.”...
...“The probe also seems politically motivated,” said Oh Dong-jin, a film critic....
...He said, “Oh, you have to have a willing buyer, willing seller, how are they going to do that?” And then also promptly hung up....
...JS Oh has struggled with loneliness since her divorce and early retirement as a primary school teacher in Seoul....
...Oh Keo-don, the former Busan mayor, resigned following a sexual misconduct allegation....
...Oh, and we’d also like to congratulate Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on finally being named the new director-general of the World Trade Organization....
...US companies have urged President Moon Jae-in of South Korea to release Samsung chair Lee Jae-yong from prison....
...“The best exit scenario seems to be gradually reopening the economy and seeing how it affects the virus situation,” said Mr Oh....
...Oh Suk-tae, an economist at Société Générale, said many South Korean manufacturers were still attracted to China’s manufacturing base, despite US-led efforts to decouple technology supply chains from China...
...Since the election of liberal President Moon Jae-in last year, many of South Korea’s institutions have tacked to the left....
...Mr Oh of Jinyoung Packaging recalls an incident when, as part of a deal, he created a mock-up product to show Samsung....
...Travelling in a 200-member delegation to North Korea with South Korean president Moon Jae-in, Lee Jae-yong, the vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics, saw a billboard near Pyongyang Station that read “Science...
...Kaesong was “not capitalism, but crony capitalism . . . there was no transparency and accountability”, said Kongdan Oh, an Asia expert at the Institute for Defense Analyses, a US think-tank....
...“They consider us sex toys,” said Oh Jung Hee, a former trader who worked in one of North Korea’s ubiquitous but technically illegal markets known as jangmadang....
...It is a prospect of which the Moon Jae-in administration in Seoul appears to be keenly aware....
...“Samsung will find it hard to gain public support for Lee Jae-yong's decision to remain as a board director even though he was convicted of bribery."...
...The start of Friday’s Korea summit was tense as Moon Jae-in, the South’s president, scanned the no-man’s-land across the demilitarised zone at Panmunjom....
...He has been plagued by rampant media speculation of a possible early departure after President Moon Jae-in took office last May....
...At the company’s board meeting on Tuesday, Lee Sang-hoon, its CFO, was named as the next board chairman to replace Kwon Oh-hyun, who will step down in March....
...The shake-up is aimed at easing concerns about a leadership vacuum, which was exacerbated earlier this month when Kwon Oh-hyun, head of the booming chip division who was helping to run the company during...
...Kwon Oh-hyun, who has run the chip division since 2012, is one of three chief executives who are jointly running the company following the conviction of Lee Jae-yong, Samsung’s de facto head, for corruption...
...of Samsung Electronics were attempting to rally the troops as the South Korean conglomerate grappled with the prospect of a prolonged leadership vacuum, after the group’s billionaire heir-apparent Lee Jae-yong...
...Legal thriller: Lee Jae-yong, the imprisoned heir to a wealthy family dynasty, must fight to clear his name in this taut courtroom drama....
...However, Oh Seok-tae, analyst at Société Générale, says that “without comprehensive tax hikes, we could see a hole in our balance sheet in the long term”....
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