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...Against a background of clipped, lightweight orchestral playing informed by period-instrument practice, Seong-Jin Cho radiated luminosity and exhibited a fresh individuality of spirit that gave the performance...
...In the middle, for Beethoven’s sublime Piano Concerto No 4, we were treated to the return to Washington of the young South Korean virtuoso Seong-Jin Cho....
...He wants KT&G to appoint Cha Suk-yong, chief executive of leading domestic cosmetics group LG H&H, and Hwang Ou-jin, the former head of Prudential Life Insurance, as outside directors....
...“The probe also seems politically motivated,” said Oh Dong-jin, a film critic....
...Inequality is a fatal weapon in Cho Nam-Joo’s second novel Saha....
...Lee Sang-hyun, the chief of South Korean activist fund Flashlight Capital Partners, has been pushing for the country’s largest tobacco producer KT&G to spin off its ginseng unit and appoint two renowned...
...“Korean culture remains deeply patriarchal,” said Shin Sang-a, president of the Seoul Women Workers Association....
...In episode 3, faced with the choice of four shapes — circle, triangle, star and umbrella, banker Cho Sang-Woo (who stole money from his clients and lost it all in the market) tells his “team” each to choose...
...“The tycoons spend most of their days at a meeting room of the prison, which virtually becomes their office,” says Park Sang-in, an economics professor at Seoul National University....
...Sea-jin Chang, a professor at the National University of Singapore who has written extensively about Samsung’s history, said Mr Lee’s pledge appeared “pragmatic” because South Korea’s inheritance tax has...
...unprecedented uncertainty in supply and demand dynamics brought by Covid-19 we ask for your understanding that we cannot provide an annual shipment plan at this time,” SK’s chief financial officer Cha Jin-seok...
...Mr Cho, the economics professor, noted that Samsung has not made a large acquisition since its $8bn purchase of US car technology company Harman in 2017....
...“She’s nice because she’s rich,” replies Ki-taek’s own wife Chung-sook (Chang Hyae Jin)....
...In central Seoul on Saturday, hundreds of thousands of protesters clapped and sang in support of President Moon Jae-in and his government’s campaign to combat corruption through justice system reforms....
...“We are getting more than 200 calls a day asking about kits . . . it is hard to handle,” said Park Sang-jin, a director at Solgent....
...So, we decided to partner with Delivery Hero,” said Bong Jin Kim, Woowa Brothers’ founder. The South Korean group owns Baedal Minjok, an app more commonly known as Baemin....
...He replaces Jo Seong-jin, another long-serving executive who first joined LG in the 1970s before taking the top job in late 2016....
...Nearly a fifth of the market value of Hanjin’s five key units, including Korean Air, Hanjin Kal and budget carrier Jin Air, was wiped out over six months after her water-throwing incident in April 2018,...
...Three are rappers (J-Hope, RM, Suga), four are singers (Jimin, Jin, Jungkook, V)....
...Casey has left high school but cannot leave her addictive mother; Jin has long since fled the nest but has returned to await news of his hospitalised professor father....
...Alec Jin has moved from Standard Chartered bank to the position of investment manager covering China and Hong Kong-listed stocks....
...Cho Kuk, a high-ranking official in the Moon administration, leads the trend. “Japan’s state power is apparently stronger than that of South Korea,” Mr Cho said in a Facebook post....
...Cho), the son of a celebrated architect and a Korean-American like Kogonada....
...Mr Cho has denied the allegations....
...“The government is piling all kinds of pressure on the family through various investigations,” said Park Sang-in, a professor at Seoul National University....
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