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...But his image as a graft-buster was badly undermined by a scandal surrounding his wife, first lady Kim Keon Hee, over her acceptance of a Christian Dior bag worth about Won3mn ($2,200) from a Korean-American...
...In the middle, for Beethoven’s sublime Piano Concerto No 4, we were treated to the return to Washington of the young South Korean virtuoso Seong-Jin Cho....
...Against a background of clipped, lightweight orchestral playing informed by period-instrument practice, Seong-Jin Cho radiated luminosity and exhibited a fresh individuality of spirit that gave the performance...
...“The probe also seems politically motivated,” said Oh Dong-jin, a film critic....
...Here, designer Cho Myung Hee reimagines the ruins of Troy as a curving space, backed by a giant window, dominated by a swooping structure like a modernist bus shelter, and splashed with starry projections...
...I serve it with Ethiopian Yirgacheffe coffee and Taiwanese milk oolong (Jin Xuan) tea....
...Inequality is a fatal weapon in Cho Nam-Joo’s second novel Saha....
...She is bringing works by more than 30 contemporary South Korean artists to London, including Na Ri Choi, Ha Jin Lee and Sung Hee Kim. “The artists do not pay to participate....
...“It is hard to move bilateral relations forward without resolving the forced labour issue,” said Park Cheol-hee, professor of Japanese politics at Seoul National University....
...Cho Hyun-dong, South Korea’s deputy foreign minister, who presided over this week’s meeting that brought together lawyers for the victims, academics and legal experts, said: “It is meaningful that the public...
...The director, Suh Jin-suk, will have funds to acquire a coherent collection; most public museums in South Korea are restricted by complex rules in how they buy, which leads to “few art museums in Korea with...
...Kim Il Sung’s commandos in 1968 infiltrated South Korea and attempted to assassinate the president Park Chung-hee but failed after a bloody gunfight near the Blue House grounds....
...Together with his wife Hong Ra-hee, the late Lee Kun-hee amassed a collection of 23,000 pieces, including celebrated works by the likes of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Mark Rothko...
...For Samsung, since Lee Kun-hee suffered a heart attack in 2014, that man has been his son....
...Samsung’s chairman Lee Kun-hee died on Sunday, although the group has been run by his son and vice-chairman Lee Jae-yong for six years....
...“The failures of [the criminal justice system] and policing — it’s not unique or limited to any political party,” says Jin Hee Lee, senior deputy director of litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational...
...Lee Jae-yong has led the company since 2014, when his father, chairman Lee Kun-hee, suffered a heart attack....
...We are making painstaking preparations in terms of our investments and finances,” Suh Dong-hee, chief financial officer, said Thursday. The pandemic has hit South Korea’s broader economy....
...“She’s nice because she’s rich,” replies Ki-taek’s own wife Chung-sook (Chang Hyae Jin)....
...Kwon Young-jin, the mayor of Daegu, asked its 2.4m residents to avoid travel, stay home and wear masks even indoors....
...Her mother, Lee Myung-hee, widow of late chairman Cho Yang-ho, received a six-month prison sentence, suspended for a year, with a Won7m fine and a Won37m forfeit....
...So, we decided to partner with Delivery Hero,” said Bong Jin Kim, Woowa Brothers’ founder. The South Korean group owns Baedal Minjok, an app more commonly known as Baemin....
...He replaces Jo Seong-jin, another long-serving executive who first joined LG in the 1970s before taking the top job in late 2016....
...“We are trying to secure inventories of chip materials as much as possible . . . but we cannot rule out production disruption if Japanese export controls drag on,” Cha Jin-seok, head of the company’s finance...
...Casey has left high school but cannot leave her addictive mother; Jin has long since fled the nest but has returned to await news of his hospitalised professor father....
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