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...Indonesia is keen to see nickel get processed within the country, it is important for the company to secure stable supply of raw nickel ore and secure local refining facilities in Indonesia,” said Lee Jong-hyung...
...Park Chong-hoon, head of research at Standard Chartered in Seoul, said authorities needed to bring inflation under control in order to cut interest rates to spur domestic consumption and boost the economy...
...Chinese President Xi Jinping has dispatched a senior official to Pyongyang to reassert China’s “deep friendship” with North Korea, as concern rises in Beijing and Washington over Kim Jong Un’s blossoming...
...“China’s rise is likely to erode Korea’s economic growth and competitiveness in the medium to long term,” said Park Chong-hoon, head of research at Standard Chartered in Seoul....
...“Just as Korea overtook Japan as the display industry leader, China is likely to outsmart us on the back of its huge domestic market, abundant capital and technological development,” said Park Chong-hoon...
...But last week, the leader of Yoon’s People Power party, former justice minister Han Dong-hoon, acknowledged that the gift could “be a matter of public concern”....
...North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited a fighter jet plant in Russia’s far east on Friday after discussing military cooperation with President Vladimir Putin earlier this week, officials said....
...South Korean diving instructor Park Soo-hong has been a customer of AliExpress, Chinese tech giant Alibaba’s online shopping service, ever since he went bargain-hunting for car parts five years ago....
...Park Jea-gun, professor of electronics engineering at Hanyang University, said South Korea “should stress to China that it has no choice but to join because of the US pressure, and that it can’t produce...
...“Korea is unlikely to see a recovery any time soon, unless the Chinese economy turns around rapidly,” said Park Chong-hoon, head of research at Standard Chartered in Seoul, also noting challenges stemming...
...“Space is becoming increasingly militarised and weaponised . . . turning [it] into a giant geopolitical chessboard,” South Korean foreign minister Park Jin told the forum on Monday....
...Park Chong-hoon, head of Korea research at Standard Chartered, said: “There has been a structural change going on in Korean-Chinese economic relations over recent years as Chinese companies, with Beijing...
...In her introductory video, Song-a promises to take viewers on a tour of Pyongyang, where “literally everywhere you go there are amusement parks”....
...“In the case of illness or an emergency situation, Kim Yo Jong is likely to be a strong candidate to take over because in North Korea bloodline is more important than gender,” said Park Young-ja, a research...
...Having acquired intercontinental ballistic missiles, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is now focused on developing a new generation of tactical and battlefield nuclear weapons, which experts worry have a...
...Park Chong-hoon, head of research at Standard Chartered in Seoul, said the South Korean government was not doing enough to address the looming pension crisis due to the public resistance against reform ahead...
...Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s supreme leader for almost two decades, had died the previous year, and power transferred to his 27-year-old son, Kim Jong Un. Global intrigue swirled around the new dictator....
...Park has since organised two more rounds of flights, the latest of which carried a large banner blaming North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for May’s Covid outbreak....
...“The credit market has stabilised somewhat but Kepco’s current structure of making up for losses by issuing bonds is not sustainable,” said Park Chong-hoon, head of research at Standard Chartered in Seoul...
...the world’s largest contract chipmaker had invested a total of NT$1.86tn ($60.7bn) in 3-nanometre and 5-nm chip production — among the most advanced in the world — at its factory in the Tainan Science Park...
...“The government will find it more difficult to respond to the credit squeeze as actively as it did during the pandemic,” said Park Chong-hoon, head of Korea and Japan research at Standard Chartered....
...Yoon’s nominee for foreign minister, Park Jin, has also reproached the Moon administration for not responding “properly” to North Korean provocations....
...In the 1970s North Korea’s then ruler Kim Il Sung, the grandfather of present ruler Kim Jong Un, tasked his son and successor Kim Jong Il with establishing a cell within the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea...
...Too many journalists write about Kim Jong Un’s hairstyle, or if he likes Swiss cheese, and not about the crimes he is committing.”...
...State media broadcast images of Kim Jong Un wearing a surgical mask on Thursday as he presided over a politburo meeting of the ruling Workers’ party, during which he ordered “all cities and counties across...
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