Hints and tips:
...Best known for being unknown, South Korean banks are finally attracting some attention. Activists and foreign investors have them in their sights....
...They are as simple to create as the Pot Noodle, without all the exhausting business of tearing off a foil lid. Today, our nation is awash with toasties of every description....
...Webtoons remain unknown to many outside Korea and Japan, but Korean companies specialising in the art form are rapidly expanding beyond Asia....
...Is this a new cold war? If we are to be hit by an unknown unknown, it is difficult to see the kind of co-ordinated response that was displayed by the London G20 of 2009....
...The comments from Kim Kye Gwan, vice foreign minister, form part of a flurry of missives from the regime, which castigated South Korean and US officials — in particular John Bolton, Mr Trump’s national security...
...But Israeli group Plus500 has been enjoying a pick-up in business....
...A Kim Jong-Il Production , by Paul Fischer, Viking, RRP£14.99/Flatiron Books, RRP$27.99 The story of how the late North Korean dictator kidnapped South Korean cinema’s golden couple, the director Shin Sang-ok...
...a North Korean invasion of Japan, mixing elements of a spy thriller with some national soul-searching....
...In November 2008, Choi created Kogi, the first gourmet truck, serving “Korean BBQ”, a fiery fusion of Mexican tacos and Korean barbecue fillings such as short ribs and kimchi (fermented cabbage)....
...Indeed, there is a shadow over this whole topic, in the form of Nassim Taleb’s recent and highly popular book The Black Swan. Most of the things that matter, Taleb argues, cannot be predicted....
...The Financial Times team of crack pundits is back, once again, to risk its professional reputation on bold predictions of some known unknowns....
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