Hints and tips:
...a former board member of steel and battery materials producer Posco, the company’s leadership is worried the government is seeking a pretext to block the reappointment next year of chief executive Choi Jeong-woo...
...“Ongoing domestic financial stress and growth risks argue for a shift back in its policy strategy towards domestic issues,” Park Jeong-woo, an economist at Nomura, said in a recent report....
...Yoon, by contrast, is a product of Seoul’s elite....
...Ko Kum-sook, who runs one of Seoul’s 200 zero-waste shops, says about 80 per cent of her customers are women in their 20s and 30s....
...“In the past, we thought that we could co-operate with China — they are our neighbour, a country with which we have many things to exchange,” said Koo Jeong-woo, a sociology professor at Sungkyunkwan University...
...On the former, he notes his personal ties forged over years with Jeong Kyeong-doo, the former South Korean defence minister, with whom he clashed while pursuing Trump’s demands that South Koreans quintuple...
...One amateur investor, 32-year-old Jeong-ho Lee, said he stands to lose about $120,000 after investing in the Shinhan leveraged ETN, which dropped over 95 per cent before it was suspended by Korea Exchange...
...“She’s nice because she’s rich,” replies Ki-taek’s own wife Chung-sook (Chang Hyae Jin)....
...Kim Ji-yoon at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul agrees that “whoever becomes president, it is inevitable that South Korea will have to bear more costs to sustain the [US] alliance”....
...Kim Eun-sook, a publisher, shuttles manuscripts and proofs to the censors’ office; the play she has had translated is returned butchered, whole pages obliterated using an ink roller....
...“As time passes, people will see how this base will bring a lot of benefits — job openings and development,” says Yoon Tae-jeong, the former village mayor who pushed for Gangjeong to be chosen as the base...
...On a foggy day, with mist shrouding the green hills to the south, Park Bong-sook, a 77-year-old widow with a sharp sense of humour who has spent seven years in Guryong, smiles wanly as she shows off her...
...Sun-a Kim admires George Benson and Paco di Lucia – hence, perhaps, the flamenco coda at the end of “Jeong-jung-dong”....
...“I don’t think there’s much point in concentrating on the exact numbers . . . the plans are constantly changing,” said Yoon Hee-sook, an analyst at the Korea Development Institute, a state-backed research...
...Meryl Streep, a shoo-in for Best Actress Oscar nomination, is tipped to be in competition with Yoon Jeong-hee of Korea’s Poetry....
...Not just grandma (played by veteran actress Yoon Jeong-hee): a floridly dressed old dear with bead-bright eyes, a bustling fretfulness and an ability to brave life’s more grotesque battles....
...Amid the big names, the less familiar ones shine: the Colombian cowboys Cimarron thrashing and stamping; Korean komun go heroics from Yoon Jeong Heo....
...Debbie Yoon, a married couple who studied at the Pratt Institute before returning to Seoul to launch their line in 1999....
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