Hints and tips:
...As a hardline prosecutor, he oversaw the conviction of conservative former president Park Geun-hye and Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong on bribery and corruption charges....
...Similarly, Park had helped bring Korean abstract painting into modern and contemporary art history by presenting the work of artists such as Lee Ufan and Park Seo-Bo of the Dansaekhwa group in the 1970s...
...Other successful assassinations include Choi Duk-keun, a South Korean diplomat killed in Vladivostok in 1996, and Yi Han Yong, nephew of late leader Kim Jong Il, who was shot dead in Seoul a year later....
...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....
...The collection, estimated at 13,000 pieces and valued as high as $2.7bn, includes works by Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Mark Rothko, as well as works by Korean artists Park Soo-keun and Lee Jung-seob....
...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....
...Two years later Park Chan-wook’s crime thriller Oldboy, which rapidly developed a cult following, won the Grand Prix award....
...Chung Han-keun is expected to face trial in South Korea on charges of embezzlement and hiding assets abroad, prosecutors said....
...“Park still exerts a kind of dark nostalgic pull on many Koreans,” the artist says. At White Cube Mason’s Yard, Seung-Taek Lee’s exhibition is a game of two halves....
...But Yoo Chang-keun, a South Korean businessman, has a cautionary tale....
...Lee Youn-taek, the country’s most prominent theatre director, is standing trial over allegations that he sexually abused actresses over the course of decades. He has denied the allegations....
...“People are worried that the ruling could have a negative impact on Ms Park’s case.”...
...Keun Lee, professor of economics at Seoul National University, has studied how technological advances can jump-start development....
...Analysts say Samsung Electronics' three key executives - Vice Chairman Kwon Oh-hyun, President Yoon Boo-keun and President Shin Jong-kyun - are strong candidates for the job....
...South Korean President Park Geun-hye held a national security meeting to discuss how to respond to the latest missile launch....
...The latest news is that David Zwirner gallery has become the New York representative of works by Yun Hyong-keun....
...“We are getting down to the end with the lender,” a principal at Witkoff emailed Low Taek Jho, known as Jho Low, the Malaysian owner of Jynwel Capital....
...Contrary to market expectations, the South Korean company opted not to jettison Shin Jong-kyun, chief executive of its mobile division, or his two co-chief executives – Kwon Oh-hyun and Yoon Boo-keun, who...
...President Park Geun-hye, who took office in February 2013, has made the so-called “creative economy” a central goal of her agenda, pumping billions of dollars of state funds into supporting start-ups and...
...Ms Park promised to resolve the issue, which she says is a matter “not just for GM but for the whole Korean economy”....
...In September, an opposition party lawmaker, Park Hong-keun, submitted a revision to a development law which would allow the authorities to cancel a business license of large retailers that ignore the city...
...This has made Pyongyang nervous about excessive reliance on its neighbour, said Phillip Park, a professor at Seoul’s University of North Korean Studies....
...Park Keun-hye, party leader, made revising legislation on the sector a top priority among other election pledges in a bid to protect small, family-run shops....
...Park Nam-gi, a senior finance official viewed as responsible for a botched currency reform late last year, is no longer mentioned in dispatches....
...The most tangible evidence of bad blood came late last year when the North placed tight curbs on business at a Southern-operated industrial park just over the border....
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