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...If the reality of no sleep is bleak and scratchy, the big-screen version as experienced by police detective Hae-jun (Park Hae-il) is rarely less than gorgeous. Such is the magic of cinema....
...But for all the nasty genre flourishes in director Kwon Oh-seung’s box of tricks, the result is never exploitative....
...Parasite was backed by the mogul Lee Mi-kyung, vice-chair of CJ Group, which owns Korea’s biggest entertainment group as well as interests in pharmaceuticals and retail....
...“The number of offences committed and amount of smuggled goods are not small,” said Judge Oh Chang-hoon....
...Kang Kyung-wha, South Korean foreign minister, said last week that her ministry is in discussions with the US over this matter, but later backtracked....
...Oh well. It was a sacrifice almost worth making to be presented, finally, with the right kind of musical drama. barbican.org.uk...
...Park Yoo-kyung, director at APG Asset Management Asia, who attended the shareholder meeting, urged Samsung to keep up momentum in its reform efforts regardless of Mr Lee’s legal trouble....
...A piano motif circles, the tension builds, until relief of a sort finally arrives when the drums kick in properly and Newman stretches out with “Oh, Baltimore”....
...Kwon Oh-hyun, Samsung vice-chairman, responded that the company needed to consider the need to fund future growth....
...“All of our current products can be considered,” Mr Oh says....
...“The founding families think of the company first above everything else,” says Michael Oh, a fund manager at Matthews Asia....
...Asked if the group represented a 9/11 style threat to the US, he added: “Oh, this is beyond anything we’ve seen.”...
...It also unveiled a $40bn stimulus package to boost the country’s flagging economy as Choi Kyung-hwan, the new finance minister, promised to introduce expansionary fiscal policy....
...Hopes for the Kospi’s re-rating have increased after Choi Kyung-hwan, South Korea’s recently appointed finance minister, revealed a $40bn stimulus package last month to boost the country’s flagging economy...
...He will replace Hyun Oh-seok, who has been criticised for failing to revive the country’s economic growth and force through economic reforms....
...Violinist Kyung Wha Chung scolded one who was coughing during one of her concerts in London. What did the audience members have in common? 19....
...Mr Jang’s rise to power began in the early 1970s when he married Kim Kyung Hui, daughter of North Korea’s then leader Kim Il Sung....
...“I had no idea what a popular issue [SEZs] would be,” says Park Kyung-ae, a University of British Columbia professor who organised the conference....
...A social consensus should be reached to solve the problem but this will take a long time”, says Yoo Kyung-joon at the state-run Korea Development Institute....
...In the Yami restaurant on the High Street, Oh Jihoon, the manager, says: “At the moment, people have lost hope.”...
...“The GPS jamming signals are coming from North Korea so we believe the North may be related to this,” said Lee Kyung-oh, an official at the Korea Communications Commission, a state agency in charge of telecommunications...
...flights see possible GPS signal jamming from North Some South Korean flights are experiencing jamming in their global positioning system signals, with the source believed to originate in North Korea, Lee Kyung...
...Kim Kyung-ja, a housewife, said she would back the mayor through fear the DP’s moves to increase spending could push up taxes....
...Oh, an official at the South’s Korea Communications Commission, said by phone from Seoul today, according to Bloomberg....
...Hur Kyung-wook, vice-finance minister, said the currency market factored in speculation that China will let the renminbi rise....
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