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...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 biggest factor weighing on Samsung shares is the downward chip cycle,” said Park Sang-in, an economics professor at Seoul National University....
...Lee Jae-yong, the billionaire head of the Samsung tech empire, will be freed from jail on Friday, a decision that will refocus attention on the uneasy relationship between South Korea’s biggest companies...
...Chung Eui-yong, the foreign minister, said Seoul and Washington had “effectively” agreed on the text of a draft declaration, while Moon said on a visit to Australia last month that the parties to the war...
...Park Sang-in, an economics professor at Seoul National University, said the family did not appear to have reached an agreement on how to divide the inherited stockholdings because of Lee Jae-yong’s imprisonment...
...“We’re all going on a summer holiday” (RIP Una Stubbs) sang Airbnb on Thursday, as it reported strong revenue growth in the second quarter and promising future bookings....
...“Today’s ruling is too generous,” said Park Sang-in, an economics professor at Seoul National University. “He should have received at least a five-year prison sentence, given his serious crimes.”...
...Park Sang-in, a professor of economics at Seoul National University, said prosecutors would have clear grounds for appeal....
...“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....
...Park Sang-in, an economics professor at Seoul National University, said Mr Lee’s speech was void of specific measures to cease the complex inter-group transactions that have helped keep control in the family...
...“Lee Jae-yong is not like [late Apple boss] Steve Jobs. I don’t think his absence will have a big impact,” said Albert Yong, head of Petra Capital Management, a Seoul hedge fund....
...Park Sang-in, an economics professor at Seoul National University, said Monday’s prison sentences were “significant” and were a positive step for South Korea’s courts in terms of cases relating to chaebol...
...The Seoul Central District Court on Tuesday sent Lee Sang-hoon, Samsung’s number two executive, to jail for hampering union activities in violation of South Korea’s labour law....
...Park Sang-in, an economics professor at Seoul National University, said it was clear the group’s “top priority is still on smoothing Mr Lee’s succession process”....
...The group’s billionaire heir, Lee Jae-yong, is serving a suspended sentence for bribing the country’s former president, Park Geun-hye, for business favours. He has appealed against the decision....
...The first was triggered by Sim Sang-jeung, a lawmaker with the Justice party....
...Lee Jae-yong, the company’s billionaire chief, is awaiting a final appeals ruling in a bribery case that saw him incarcerated for a year until last February....
...Rana Foroohar joined Antfactory in 1999, not 1998, and to clarify how it wound down as an incubator Bubble trouble: Who lost out in the first dotcom crash Pets.com “What goes up . . . must come down,” sang...
...Lee Jae-yong, chief of Samsung, and Shin Dong-bin, chairman of retail group Lotte, both received suspended jail sentences this year, despite being convicted of paying bribes to Park’s confidante....
...“This scandal shows that the rule of law is not often upheld in South Korea’s judicial system,” said Park Sang-in, a professor at Seoul National University....
...The group’s billionaire heir-apparent Lee Jae-yong is awaiting a Supreme Court ruling due later this year on allegations he paid bribes to a top aide of the country’s former president, Park Geun-hye, in...
...It has only come to the surface now with the prosecutors’ investigation,” said Park Sang-in, a professor at Seoul National University....
...Samsung’s situation is further complicated by the status of Lee Jae-yong, its de facto chief, who is currently on a suspended jail sentence for corruption....
...It remains to be seen how far-reaching the changes will be,” said Park Sang-in, professor of industrial policy at Seoul National University....
...Among them were Choi Eun-hee, the actress, and Shin Sang-Ok, her husband director, who were taken from a beach in Hong Kong to Pyongyang and forced to produce propaganda films for the regime....
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