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...Kim Mi-seon, a 56-year-old housewife in Incheon, is a “theme stock” lover. In August, she made a 20 per cent return on her Won30mn ($22,000) investment in superconductor-related equities....
...Hyundai has unquestionably been helped by mis-steps from the US’s domestic players....
...Kim Kum-mi puts in a titanic performance as Queen Hecuba, lamenting her losses in throaty song. Yi So-yeon is formidable as Cassandra and Choi Ho-Sung’s self-pitying Menelaus provides comic relief....
...Add to that a cohort of star curators who have cut their teeth over the past 20 years: Sunjung Kim, Sook-Kyung Lee, Clara Kim and Christine Kim, to name just a few....
...At Anju in Washington DC, chefs Danny Lee and Angel Barreto are doing creative, award-winning work, serving modern takes on classics such as Korean fried chicken alongside Lee’s mother’s traditional recipes...
...“Yoon’s policies are pro-small government and business-centric,” said Sue Mi Terry at the Wilson Center think-tank in Washington....
...Kim’s health is “the biggest wild card” in assessing stability in North Korea, said Sue Mi Terry, a former CIA analyst who briefed former US presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama on North Korea and is...
...For Lee Young-mi, however, the 11 per cent rate offered by the PeopleFund is still too high. “I am not sure how to pay back the debt.” *The name has been changed...
...“My mother talked about my father a lot,” says Lee Mi-il in a thin rasp. “She believed that he was the greatest person in the world.”...
...Lee Mi-young* is a typical defector success story....
...Kim Mi-seon, a 52-year-old maths teacher from Incheon, was among those left disappointed ahead of Kakao Games’ debut in Seoul on Thursday....
...“The closer you are to the centre . . . the more important you are,” said Ms Lee....
...Sung Mi-kyung, a researcher at the culture ministry, says Korea’s new status as a “cultural superpower” has boosted its brand value overseas immensely....
...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....
...On the company’s production line, where she is packing kits into boxes, Lee Mi-hyun, 30, says: “We are working overtime for three hours almost every day and coming to work on weekends because we have to...
...“Hyundai’s crucial mis-step was its focus on sedans and high-function cars while consumer tastes were rapidly shifting towards SUVs,” said Mr Lee....
...Hyeonseo Lee, a prominent North Korea defector in the south, agrees. For her, the current detente is nothing more than “the biggest public relations stunt ever”....
...A mis-step could cause the regional economy — the world’s growth engine — to falter....
...Mr Moon’s first key foreign policy decisions, some analysts say, amount to a strategic mis-step and an attempt to please the domestic forces that propelled him to the presidency at the expense of the nation...
...“It’s time to rediscover the next generation,” says gallery owner Hyun-Sook Lee....
...“This is the day of our people’s victory,” said Choo Mi-ae, leader of the Minjoo party. “We urge the Constitutional Court to make its ruling quickly.”...
...Last year, I had the privilege of getting to know Park Yeon-mi, whose memoir, In Order to Live, tells how, aged 13, she fled across the same border, eventually becoming a human-rights activist and expert...
...asked Choo Mi-ae, the main opposition leader. “The president should listen to public opinion....
...There’s a deliberate irony to In-Sook Chappell’s engrossing play about life in North Korea....
...Her arrest follows Saturday’s deportation of her Korean-American talk show co-host Shin Eun-mi....
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