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...Zhu’s appointment comes as the gallery prepares to open its first space on the continent in Seoul on October 6, run by Kyu Jin Hwang....
...Kyu Jin Hwang, the gallery’s director for Asia, will oversee the Seoul space and appoint a managing director in time for its opening. Ropac has strong ties to South Korea, he says....
...Mr Roh expects Samsung to sell 30m foldable smartphones in 2022, boosting its mobile margins to 12.9 per cent....
...Nonetheless, he is building a team committed to the continent and has a staff of 10 going to the Taiwan fair, including new recruit Kyu Jin Hwang, a specialist in Korean art....
...The key now is how to implement any agreement to come out of this week’s meeting,” says Park Jung-jin, a professor at Kyungnam University in South Korea....
...The approach has been dubbed the “Moonshine policy” for its semblance to the “Sunshine policy” of former South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun. Pyongyang has so far rebuffed Mr Moon’s efforts....
...In 2009, Roh committed suicide as a corruption investigation closed in....
...Nam Kwang-kyu, a professor at Korea University, believes the Trump administration’s stance will complicate any effort at an inter-Korean thaw....
...But the government should view entry to the TPP as a priority, argued Suh Jin-kyu, researcher at Korea Institute for International Economic Policy....
...“It is a typical example of a policy initiative just to show off,” said Ahn Jin-gul of People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy. “It will soon end up forcing people to make donations.”...
...Yet a change in the rules is unlikely in the foreseeable future, says Hyeong Hyeog-kyu, a parliamentary researcher on national security....
...JYP, for example, was founded by Park Jin-young, a popular singer in 1990s South Korea....
...Chinese officials have given their Korean counterparts no specific intelligence to back up the decision, according to Lee Jin-kyu, the Korean science ministry’s internet director....
...Meanwhile, celebrity suicides, with victims ranging from entertainers to the former president Roh Moo-hyun, are blamed for making such a course seem more acceptable among the broader population....
...After a career as a lawyer, he was appointed chief of staff to the late president Roh Moo-hyun....
...Ahn Byung-jin, a professor at Kyunghee Cyber University, said this case could have particularly serious implications....
...“I understand the government’s desire to seek solutions with the threat of a rapidly changing market but this is the wrong direction,” said Greg Roh, analyst at HMC Investment Securities....
...Sohn Hak-kyu, the UDP leader, said the compromise was aimed at avoiding further political limbo....
...Whether Mr Roh will raise the issue of the abductees as talks begin is unclear, however, and Oh Young-jin, a presidential spokesman, says it is “not appropriate” to discuss specific items on the agenda....
...“My expectations are not high,” said Paik Jin-hyun, a professor of international relations at Seoul National University....
...Their leader, Pastor Bae Hyung-kyu, 42, was killed last week....
...Although Mr Kwon has only four months left in office – he will depart when President Roh Moo-hyun’s term expires on February 24 – this is a critical period for HSBC....
...Kwon O-kyu, finance minister, offered a public apology on Wednesday for the price surge, a day after the construction minister and two presidential aides tendered their resignations over the same issue....
...Roh Moo-hyun, South Korea’s president, had also stopped seeing Mr Koizumi....
...But Hwang Jin-ha, an opposition GNP lawmaker who initially supported the sunshine policy, said the experiment must now be considered a failure....
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