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...“This China decoupling momentum is creating great opportunities for us and Korea as a whole,” Park Ki-deok, the president of the South Korean company, told the Financial Times....
...Ahn Ki-hyun, executive director of the Korea Semiconductor Industry Association, says the country needs to press on with the Yongin project as potential rivals are making their own large investments....
...And Incheon, the third-biggest city in the country, will soon start building a museum park for a new municipal art museum, as well as an expanded history museum and buildings to host commercial galleries...
...There are small, homely, inexpensive venues that serve Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Gujarati, Kerala and Tamil communities in Romford, Ilford, Manor Park, Forest Gate and Whitechapel in east London, and Punjabis...
...But Young Ki Kim, head of investment banking for JPMorgan in Seoul, says that local private equity’s rise since the 2005 capital markets law has long since transformed the way the industry is perceived by...
...Finance minister Hong Nam-ki has also privately backed calls to allow Lee’s to return to management, according to people familiar with the matter. The ministry declined to comment....
...The personal collection includes masterpieces by Salvador Dalí, Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso as well as celebrated Korean artists such as Park Soo-keun, Lee Jung-seop and Kim Whan-ki....
...In Kyoto Distillery’s Ki No Bi gin, it figures among an array of Japanese botanicals including hinoki wood, green tea and sansho pepper (£42.90, masterofmalt.com)....
...His fellow inmates include Park Geun-hye, the former president who Lee was found guilty of bribing — via the gift of horses to the equestrienne daughter of Park’s closest aide,“shaman adviser” Choi Soon-sil...
...Bomee Ki and Woongchul Park met while training at Le Cordon Bleu. She went on to success as a pastry chef, he to a string of interesting restaurants, most recently the late, much-mourned Ledbury....
...Opportunity comes through the family’s college-age son Ki-woo (Choi Woo Shik), engaged in private tutoring with a Photoshopped diploma knocked out by pinsharp sister Ki-jung (Park So Dam)....
...given the gloomy global economic outlook and uncertainties in containing the virus,” said Hong Nam-ki, the finance minister....
...Park Ki-young, deputy trade minister, told the Financial Times: “Our businessmen with overseas plants are in trouble . . ....
...An upcoming training exercise is being reviewed by General Robert Abrams, head of the US forces in South Korea, and General Park Han-ki, chairman of South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Esper, the US...
...Ki-young, deputy trade minister, told the FT....
...Hong Ki-ho, a doctor at Seoul Medical Centre, believed the accuracy of the country’s coronavirus tests was “99 per cent — the highest in the world”....
...“We have expected fiscal spending to play the supporting role in adding vitality to the private sector,” Hong Nam-ki told a group of foreign press reporters....
...Hong Nam-ki, South Korea’s finance minister, said on Friday that it was “difficult” to continue to be recognised as a developing country given the country’s current economic standing....
...“Nothing has changed really at Samsung in terms of corporate ethics,” Mr Park said....
...Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson will be at the Business Refugee Action Network event with Ban Ki-moon, David Miliband and Sir Richard Branson....
...But he has also won praise from Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Bill Gates and Ban Ki-moon, and under his leadership the once traumatised country has a growing economy and dramatically improved healthcare....
...The group’s billionaire heir, Lee Jae-yong, is serving a suspended sentence for bribing the country’s former president, Park Geun-hye, for business favours. He has appealed against the decision....
...These tragic incidents should never be repeated,” said Hwang Sang-ki, whose 22-year-old daughter died of leukaemia in 2007 after working for four years at one of Samsung’s semiconductor plants....
...In January, Park Sang-ki, the justice minister, said the country was considering a bill to ban cryptocurrency trading altogether....
...“There are great concerns regarding virtual currencies and the justice ministry is basically preparing a bill to ban cryptocurrency trading through exchanges,” said Park Sang-ki, South Korea’s justice minster...
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