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...Job moves LG Energy Solution, Korea’s largest battery maker, appointed president Kim Dong-myung as chief executive on Wednesday, replacing Kwon Young-soo....
...“It is a business based on religion,” said Tak Ji-il, a professor at Busan Presbyterian University....
...“It was the negative election that I needed to choose who was less bad, instead of selecting who was the best,” said Park Ji-Hye, a stay-at-home mother....
...It is so frustrating and disappointing,” said Yu Ji-Yeon, an office worker, in her blog....
...“It is a pity that artworks and cultural activities should be judged based on ideology,” says Kim Ji-seok, the festival’s executive programmer....
...Han’s Korea Confederation of Trade Unions is at the heart of the country’s biggest wave of protests since 2008, when huge demonstrations against US beef imports cast a shadow over the presidency of Lee Myung-bak...
...“I actually think [his resignation offer] is a little bit late,” said Kim Ji-yoon, an analyst at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies....
...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....
...“We think the FTA has been very successful,” said Yoo Ji-mi, director of international co-operation at the Federation of Korean Industries lobby group....
...These two women join a posse of Korean authors who have found acclaim in English, including Kim Young-sam, Yi Mun-Yol, Gong Ji-young, Han Kang and Jung-myung Lee....
...However, Lee Ji-soo, an analyst at the Centre for Good Corporate Governance in Seoul, said it was too early to criticise the supreme court’s decision....
...“Domestic politics has been a total disappointment,” says Kim Ji-yoon, an analyst at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. “But it seems it doesn’t count that much....
...Several later had their convictions annulled by Lee Myung-bak, who has been president since 2008 and was formerly a top executive at Hyundai....
...“Depressed about their school record, many students are taking their lives every year,” says Kim Ji-ae of Hakbeol, a non-profit group that campaigns for educational reform....
...“Being young in Korea is very hard,” says Kim Ji-ae, a 23-year-old student. “I want the next president to solve problems such as youth employment – economic democracy is the main thing....
...EG, a chemical company owned by Park Ji-man, the younger brother of the ruling party’s presidential candidate Park Geun-hye, is another example....
...“It’s like [Manchester United’s] Park Ji-sung trying to win at street football in the back alleys,” he said....
...“The market size was reduced sharply but it has become more speculative, with investors flocking to cheaper out-of-the-money items,” says Kim Ji-hye, analyst at Kyobo Securities....
...“The president has abused his right to pardon these big-shot economic offenders,” says Lee Ji-soo, a lawyer at Seoul’s centre for good governance, a campaign group....
...The police this week delivered a comic book called Ji-yong goes time travelling to schoolchildren aged between 10 and 15....
...Park Ji-won, a close aide to the late Kim, said the North’s delegation would carry a wreath from Kim Jong-il and visit for two days....
...“As the social safety net is too low, regular workers do not want to give up the rigid system,” says Lim Ji-won, economist at JPMorgan....
...“The banking sector has huge short-term foreign debt of about $145bn,” said Lim Ji-won, economist at JP Morgan....
...Lim Ji-won, an economist at JP Morgan in Seoul, is worried that government looked rattled....
...President-elect Lee Myung-bak, an ex-Hyundai executive, promised help for consumer debtors during the campaign leading up to last month’s presidential election....
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