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...The KMT wants Han Kuo-yu, a populist China-friendly politician who lost the last presidential election to Tsai, to become speaker....
...“It needs to expand its user base beyond teenagers, as Facebook and Instagram did,” said Choi Joon-chul, head of VIP Research and Management....
...Chen Shih-chung, the man in the flower shirt, is Taiwan’s health minister....
...The DPP [the ruling Democratic Progressive party] is concerned about young voters,” said Chen Kuang-Hui, a political-science professor at National Chung Cheng University....
...Tseng Ming-chung, KMT legislative whip, argued the law could put innocent people, such as those studying or doing business in China, at risk of prosecution....
...He was replaced with Chung Ho-young, president of affiliate LG Chem....
...The case implicated dozens of top officials, including Kim Hyun-chul, the son of then-president Kim Young-sam, who served three years in prison on bribery charges....
...“It is wrong to assume that they can persuade North Korea with food aid to change its nuclear policy,” said Shin Beom-chul, a researcher at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, a think-tank....
...“Korean investors are thinking more about investment returns so activist investors’ campaigns will intensify,” said Choi Joon-chul, head of VIP Asset Management....
...He sold several works by all four of the artists on his booth — Liu Kuo-Sung (b1932), Fong Chung-Ray (b1934), Kwok Hon-Sum (1947-2003) and Chi-Tsung Wu (b1981) — including to buyers from outside of Asia...
...“This will certainly deal a blow to Moon,” said Chung Sung-yoon, a researcher at the Korea Institute for National Unification....
...Or the creepy “Thaw (Takaki Masao)”, a naked effigy of the dictator Park Chung-Hee, wearing his trademark Ray-Ban shades and encased in a fibreglass “block of ice”....
...Chung Sung-yop, an analyst at Daiwa Securities, said he expects Hyundai’s earnings to benefit in coming quarters from a better product mix and improving conditions in emerging markets....
...“The fundamental problem of global oversupply of oil products remains unchanged,” says Chung Chul-khil, chief executive of SK Innovation....
...Park Han-chul, the court’s head judge, said the alleged attempt by some UPP members to incite rebellion could threaten the country’s democracy....
...“There is a need to check these people,” says Kim Soo-chul, an aide to Lee Eon-ju, a lawmaker who is pushing to introduce similar restrictions through amendments to an existing law....
...Decura, which manages just under $1bn on its managed account platform, has 56 employees, including Chul Chung, executive partner and former global general counsel for UBS’s investment bank, and Sonia Bhasin-Woods...
...The government accepted the resignation of Song Young-chul, a director at the ministry of security and public administration, who reportedly tried to take a commemorative group photo with his colleagues...
...And in a quirk of history, it is Park Chung-hee’s daughter who is tasked with overhauling the economic framework that dates to his rule....
...Ahn Chul-soo, 52, built what is now the country’s leading antivirus software provider....
...But Lee Chung-min, a professor of international relations at Yonsei University and adviser to Ms Park, dismissed this suggestion....
...Moon Chung-in, a professor at Yonsei University and adviser to the DUP nominee, said that Mr Moon was not able to control the actions of fellow party members....
...Many voters linked their support – or dislike – for Ms Park to the record of her father, the authoritarian ruler Park Chung-hee, who is remembered as vividly for his human rights violations as for economic...
...Ahn Chul-soo, 50, made his fortune by building an antivirus software company before moving into academia....
...“Ahn Chul-soo cannot run the country as an individual.” Additional reporting by Laeticia Ock in Seoul...
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