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...“If the waiver is not extended, it would disrupt their chip production in China,” said Kim Yang-paeng, a researcher at the Korea Institute of Industrial Economics & Trade....
...We are planning to provide stronger incentives than Japan so that more Korean companies can join our programme,” said Kim....
...Yoon Suk Yeol, the country’s president, has declared ambitions to land a spacecraft on the Moon by 2032 and on Mars by 2045....
...Chung Jin Suk, a lawmaker and head of the conservative People Power party, told a party meeting on Monday that South Korea needed to reinforce its ability to deter hostilities from Pyongyang, including by...
...Meanwhile, national assembly speaker Kim Jin-pyo of the leftwing Democratic party has suggested conversion therapy for gay people as a means to address the country’s demographic crisis....
...This limits investors’ ability to exit or sell their investments, as does the difficulty of transferring cash overseas, said Hong-jin Kim, managing director of South Korea-based Stic Investments....
...South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol is facing domestic criticism after he declined to meet Nancy Pelosi during her visit to Seoul on Thursday, in what analysts said amounted to the only snub from a leader...
...North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has accused the US and South Korea of bringing the Korean peninsula to the “brink of war”....
...President Yoon Suk-yeol, who said semiconductors “determine the fate of the South Korean economy”, has promised greater backing for the industry....
...Yoon’s nominee for foreign minister, Park Jin, has also reproached the Moon administration for not responding “properly” to North Korean provocations....
...Last month, the administration of President Yoon Suk-yeol, who assumed office in May, accused the former government of committing a “crime against humanity”....
...Adapted from Min Jin Lee’s bestselling novel, the new eight-part Korean family saga retains its literary texture....
...business model has now evolved more into making readers pay for the next episodes if they want to read them immediately . . . if the story is fun and compelling, readers won’t want to wait,” said Song Jin-woo...
...Yoon Suk-yeol, the candidate of the opposition conservative People Power party, has pledged a harder line against Beijing, promising “strategic clarity” on aligning more closely with the US and defence of...
...They said they believed the three defendants — Park Jin Hyok, Jon Chang Hyok and Kim Il — were members of the Reconnaissance General Bureau, an agency of North Korea’s military intelligence, also known as...
...However, some analysts worry that Korea Inc risks veering back down the value chain into commoditised component production and lower-margin manufacturing....
...Kim Jin-woo, an analyst at Korea Investment & Securities in Seoul, said investors in the country were going “crazy about just the fact that Hyundai was in talks with Apple”....
...“They are not targeting any specific country or region; they are trying to go global,” says Kim Myung-soo, KEPA director....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on April 5 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on July 31 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...SK Hynix vice-president Cha Jin-seok sounded slightly more optimistic than his hometown arch-rival....
...But Kim Suk-jin, a research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification, said the North Korean leader may not throw open the doors as much as Seoul hopes, out of concern about political influence...
...Park Jin Hyok was last week charged alongside other unnamed co-conspirators by the US justice department of spearheading the attacks, allegedly on the orders of Kim Jong Un’s regime....
...Criminal charges unsealed by the US justice department on Thursday alleged Park Jin Hyok, a North Korean hacker, was ordered by Kim Jong Un’s regime to carry out the attacks....
...Kim Jong Un....
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