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...“The ban will boost stock prices,” said Jung Eui-jung, head of the Korean Stockholders Alliance, an advocacy group....
...Japan’s Topix rose 0.7 per cent, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index shed 0.4 per cent and China’s CSI 300 lost 0.5 per cent....
...Mainland China and Hong Kong generated 25 per cent of its $30.8bn in revenue last year, according to a person familiar with the matter....
...“What the NPS decision shows is that the ‘Corporate Value-up’ programme is little more than the government paying lip service to local retail investors,” said Ryu Young-jae, the founder of Korean proxy adviser...
...“We strongly condemn Japan’s outrageous decision,” said Lee Jae-myung, the main opposition party leader, describing it as an “atrocity”....
...Pahk Heui-jae, professor of engineering at Seoul National University and the former head of the Korean Association for Industrial Technology Security, says Koreans should use the case as an opportunity for...
...South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in is pressing ahead with his quest to declare an end to the Korean war despite months of fruitless diplomacy that have exposed divisions between Seoul and Washington....
...In November 2012, a music video from South Korean singer Park Jae-sang, more popularly known as Psy, became the most-watched video on YouTube ever....
...Moon Jae-in: The South Korean president holds a joint press conference with Australian prime minister Scott Morrison in Canberra today....
...And as the left-leaning former president Moon Jae-in placed restrictions on property investment, a lot of that money went into the art market instead....
...Critics have argued that by trying to portray Lee and Moon Jae-in, South Korea’s president, as sympathisers of China and North Korea, the Yoon campaign has crossed into vitriol....
...Finance minister Hong Nam-ki has also privately backed calls to allow Lee’s to return to management, according to people familiar with the matter. The ministry declined to comment....
...Hong Kong remains committed to zero-Covid despite a record number of cases reported over the weekend....
...The presidential candidate of the incumbent Democratic Party of Korea, Lee Jae-myung, enters election season with a stated policy of attempting to secure the upgrade from MSCI....
...Jae-yong Ahn, SK Bioscience’s chief executive, said he was “grateful that we were able to advance to the phase 3 study with the unprecedented support of global initiatives, including GSK, Coalition for Epidemic...
...This must have made for uncomfortable reading in the Blue House, the official residence of President Moon Jae-in. Yet White is quite right....
...Finance minister Hong Nam-ki said earlier this month that the government was considering a sixth supplementary budget to shore up pandemic-hit businesses....
...Hong Nam-ki, finance minister, said on Wednesday the job market recovery had become more “evident”....
...Samsung chief to get jail releaseLee Jae-yong, the billionaire head of the Samsung tech empire, will be freed from jail on Friday....
...Hong, the lawmaker, agrees that there is now much closer scrutiny of the ties between big business and politics....
...Last but not least, Hong Kong is regarded as a safer route to public markets than the US, where Didi chose to list....
...Art Basel Hong Kong Art Basel Hong Kong will be taking place throughout the weekend with a digital-meets-physical platform....
...US companies have urged President Moon Jae-in of South Korea to release Samsung chair Lee Jae-yong from prison....
...South Korean president Moon Jae-in will become the second next month....
...Lee’s wife and three children — including Lee Jae-yong, the jailed heir to crown jewel Samsung Electronics — have to pay more than $11bn back to state coffers over the next five years....
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