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...Lee Jae-min, a law professor at Seoul National University and an expert in international trade disputes, said the US was using subsidies to “lure” Korean chipmakers into its regulatory orbit....
...At an event after the Sundance premiere of Beyond Utopia, a documentary about their tumultuous journey, Woo calmly reflected that each of the Roh family “had poison with us, to take if we were captured”....
...Chun seized power through a military coup in 1979 and ruled until 1988, when he peacefully handed over the presidency to Roh Tae-woo after the first free election in decades....
...The winner of the country’s first democratic presidential election in 1987, army general Roh Tae-woo, was jailed during the presidency of his conservative successor on bribery, mutiny and treason charges...
...“There is no genre limitation in webtoons, and the genres are very diverse,” said Jang Min-gi, professor of media communications at Kyungnam University....
...Korean actors such as Han Ye-seul, Shin Se-kyung, Shin Min-a and Song Hye-Kyo help promote homegrown brands, she notes....
...The military's commander-in-chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, stressed on his website that “to be a more modernised navy, [we] must be facilitated with submarines....
...But the sentence was suspended because of ill health and he was pardoned by president Roh Moo-hyun, moves that underscored special treatment of the chaebol....
...“I think you guys have lots of questions,” joked Lee Jong-min, vice-president of Samsung’s mobile business, to investors in Seoul....
...“All the government efforts will be focused on this service that will allow the country to become a 5G powerhouse,” said Yoo Young-min, the country’s minister of information technology, adding that the 5G...
...Mr Moon on Tuesday named Noh Young-min, Seoul’s ambassador to China and one of his closest advisers, as chief of staff and appointed new top secretaries for political affairs and public relations....
...Tae-woo (1988-93) Cause for investigation: Corruption; slush funds Outcome: Sentenced to 17 years in 1997; pardoned the same year Roh Moo-hyun (2003-08) Cause for investigation: Bribery allegations...
...The stakes are much higher for everyone now,” says Kim Tae-woo, former head of the Korea Institute for National Unification....
...Before becoming president, Mr Moon served in 2007 as chief of staff for president Roh Moo-hyun, who famously pursued a “sunshine policy” of economic engagement with North Korea....
...“It is a great technology with various potential applications but it will take a long time for graphene-based batteries to be mass produced,” said Kim Young-woo at SK Securities....
...The other, Kim Hyon-hui. was sentenced to death in South Korea but was pardoned after the country’s then president, Roh Tae-woo, deemed her to have been brainwashed....
...“If South Korea pursued independent nuclear armament, the US would certainly be unhappy,” said Song Min-soon, a former foreign minister....
...Ms Park became the country’s third president to be indicted by prosecutors after the country’s former military dictators Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo were jailed on corruption and mutiny charges in the...
...Military-era leaders Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo were jailed in the mid-1990s but subsequently pardoned....
...If the arrest warrant is issued by the court, Ms Park will become the country’s third former president to be arrested on criminal charges, following former military dictators Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo...
...This leaves these zombie companies with little room to improve their cost structure,” said Jun Kwang-woo, former head of the Financial Services Commission....
...Chun Yung-woo, a top former South Korean negotiator with the North, said the government’s new tilt was clear from the people with whom the president was surrounding himself, including Mr Moon....
...Ms Park, the daughter of former South Korean President Park Chung Hee, became the first former South Korean leader to be put behind bars since military-era leaders Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo, who were...
...The 2015 agreement was a direct result of Washington’s influence,” said Song Min-soon, a former foreign minister....
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