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...But the most popular speaker, drawing a snaking line even just for entry to the overflow room, was reality star-turned-private equity executive Kim Kardashian....
...At the gallery’s headquarters, Ayoung Kim, who had exhibited at 16 bungee, opens her solo exhibition Syntax and Sorcery....
...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...
...Ban Ki-moon, the former UN secretary-general and a critic of the new South Korean laws, briefly stops by our table for a pleasant commotion of bows and two-handed business card swaps....
...This translates into different tastes as well — while the older generation was transfixed by traditional painting and is prepared to pay top dollar for works by the likes of Sanyu, Chu Teh-Chun or Zao Wou-Ki...
...Another circle joins late Monet to postwar abstract Chinese painting, for example Zao Wou-Ki and Chu Teh-Chun who lived in Paris; Zao’s conscious homage to the Nymphéas decorations “Triptyque 1987-1988”...
...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....
...Pricey modern and contemporary works boosted business in Hong Kong, with three Chinese-French artists — Sanyu, Zao Wou-Ki and Chu Teh-Chun — accounting for 38.4 per cent of this category last year....
...She has been groomed for power since her teens by North Korean propaganda master Kim Ki Nam, according to Michael Madden, a US expert in North Korean leadership....
...The Kims are some way from saintly. Neither are the Parks cartoon snobs. “She’s rich but still nice,” Ki-taek says of wife and mother Yeon-kyo (Cho Yeo Jeong). And yet....
...sixth-largest exporter and 13th biggest investor . . . travel restrictions from other countries are a blow to our companies, especially manufacturers, as it cuts them off from the global supply chain,” Park Ki-young...
...Letter in response to this article: Korea’s ‘super-agency’ may in fact provide a shield for corruption / From Chinhyun Kim, Seoul, Korea...
...Hisyam Teh Poh Teik, Ms Huong's lawyer, confirmed she had been released and said she is flying back to Hanoi this evening....
...“The battle is about saving costs by even one to two per cent or increasing margins by 1 to 2 per cent,” said Kim Ki-soo, Posco’s senior vice-president....
...“It will take a long time for a significant amount of foreign investment to flow into the country even if sanctions are partially lifted now,” said Lee Seok-ki, a research fellow at the Korea Institute for...
...Jo Song Gil, a 44-year-old diplomat, has been missing for the past two months, South Korean lawmaker Kim Min-ki told reporters on Thursday after being briefed by Seoul’s National Intelligence Service....
...On Thursday, prosecutors raided the offices of Chung Hyun-ho, head of the task force, and Kim Tae-han, chief executive of Samsung BioLogics, state news agency Yonhap reported....
...“So far nothing has been done” by the prosecution or police to locate them, said Hisyam Teh Poh Teik, Ms Doan’s lawyer....
...Gina Yeh, a spokesperson for the local auction house Ravenel, notes that Taiwanese collectors still prefer works by the likes of Zao Wou-Ki, Chu Teh-Chun, Walasse Ting or Sanyu....
...“Our beloved colleagues and their families have suffered for a long time but Samsung Electronics failed to take care of this earlier,” said Kim Ki-nam, the company’s president in charge of semiconductors...
...“North Korea institutionalised state companies’ market economy activities by legalising them after Chairman Kim took power,” said Lee Seok-ki, a researcher at the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics...
...Mr Kim, the sacked finance minister, will be replaced by Hong Nam-ki, an economic policy official currently serving in the prime minister’s office. Additional reporting by Kang Buseong...
...For Kim Si-nyuh, Ms Han’s mother, it was too little too late. “Samsung should have been more honest with us early on....
...North Korea’s decision to send Kim Jong Un’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, to the opening ceremony, together with Kim Yong-nam, the chair of the Supreme People’s Assembly, is encouraging for hopes of diplomatic engagement...
...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....
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