Hints and tips:
...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....
...Low salaries add to pressure on doctors, said Jin Dong-yan, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong....
...“Korean culture remains deeply patriarchal,” said Shin Sang-a, president of the Seoul Women Workers Association....
...A nice idea, I thought, but were the cleaners sitting in on surgeries? Were the security guards?...
...But, to Jin’s credit, he did something Chinese officials did not used to do — accept open questions....
...It is as if, like in Edward Thomas’s 1917 poem “Adlestrop”, the train has pulled up to a quiet, rural station where “no one left and no one came” and only a blackbird sang....
...There are a number of arguments, says Sea-jin Chang, a professor at the National University of Singapore, to support the theory of scandal as turning point and the view that Samsung’s importance will decline...
...Big galleries and museums put their works online; plays were specially written to be performed via Zoom; pop stars and opera singers sang from their bedrooms....
...“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...
...“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....
...Kwon Young-jin, the mayor of Daegu, asked its 2.4m residents to avoid travel, stay home and wear masks even indoors....
...Genevieve Thiers, founder of the online nanny marketplace Sittercity, has spent the pandemic acting as cook, cleaner and virtual camp counsellor....
...The platform, acquired in 2014 for a reported $200m, can connect to about 5,000 different devices, from fridges and vacuum cleaners to security cameras and sensors, and has about 45m active users....
...Three are rappers (J-Hope, RM, Suga), four are singers (Jimin, Jin, Jungkook, V)....
...“Riding along in my automobile, my baby beside me at the wheel,” Chuck Berry sang in 1956, the year the US began building its interstate highway system....
...The energy we produce here in our country is better, cheaper and cleaner than our foreign competitors’, and it’s not even close....
..."Because of Bolton’s unreasonable talk about the Libyan model, there is now a red light in the inter-Korean and US-North Korea talks,” said Woo Sang-ho, a lawmaker with the ruling Democratic party....
...Koh Dong-jin and Kim Hyun-suk will lead the mobile and consumer electronics businesses, respectively. Lee Sang-hoon, Samung’s chief financial officer, was put forward as board chairman....
...In our little “bunker” on Sunday, my daughter and I sang, read, played and ate our meals picnic-style, sitting cross-legged on a bedsheet on the floor....
...I am often the only black face in the room apart from the security guards and cleaners.”...
...“Inventories are building up both in China and the US and the situation is unlikely to get better in the third quarter,” said Kim Jin-woo, analyst at Korea Investment & Securities....
...Kim Ki-nam, Koh Dong-jin and Kim Hyun-suk will take up positions as the heads of Samsung Electronics’ three main businesses: device solutions, IT and mobile communications and consumer electronics....
...Mr Moon has appointed two corporate governance crusaders to take on the chaebol: Kim Sang-jo and Jang Ha-sung....
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