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...The donkey — named “EO”, as in “hee-haw” — is an Everybeast, trotting through a sometimes dangerous world (often steeped in apocalyptic shades of blood red), repeatedly encountering human folly and fallibility...
...Unlike his father Lee Kun-hee, the son is no business genius....
...just a few days to go before the meeting that would have appointed the Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as WTO director-general, the US suddenly blocked the decision by announcing it backed Korean Yoo Myung-hee...
...jonathan.ford@ft.com...
..., hee.”...
...Seoul expects to complete the bond sale this month, said Choi Hee-nam, vice-finance minister....
...The European Court of Justice has hee-hawed definitively on this point. The ruling might make sense for jobs a long way from home....
...Read Jonathan Guthrie’s Lombard columns on ft.com....
...Fischer, Viking, RRP£14.99/Flatiron Books, RRP$27.99 The story of how the late North Korean dictator kidnapped South Korean cinema’s golden couple, the director Shin Sang-ok and his actress wife Choi Eun-hee...
...“It’s difficult to criticise the way Samsung has conducted itself because it’s been so successful,” says Jonathan Pines, who manages an emerging Asia portfolio for Hermes Fund Managers....
...The reason, writes Hyun Hee Park, Moody’s analyst in Hong Kong, is “rapid loan growth in an economy that is increasingly exposed to commodity-driven boom-bust cycles,” exacerbated by “high loan concentrations...
...While most of the CES press pack, and indeed many Apple customers, would recognise its design guru Sir Jonathan Ive, few could name his opposite number at Samsung....
...Korea joins the International Atomic Energy Agency, leading to international monitoring of its nuclear work. 1975: South Korea joins the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT), but President Park Chung-hee...
...Eitz chayim hee la’machazikim ba, my remembrance sings, “A tree of life for those who hold on to it …” Somehow I still do....
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