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...Hyun-seung Lee, a former North Korean businessman who operated in the Chinese port city of Dalian before his defection in 2014, said returning overseas workers were normally subjected to “two or three months...
...In young performer Im Seung-soo, Broker introduces yet another gifted child in a Kore-eda film....
...Being on vacation cannot be an excuse,” Yoo Seung-min, a high-profile former lawmaker from Yoon’s conservative ruling People’s Power party, wrote on Facebook on Thursday....
...South Korea, a summit marking 60 years of EU-South Korea diplomatic relations takes place in Seoul between European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and her South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk Yeol...
...“The environment policy is likely to go backwards under the new administration,” says Heo Seung-eun at Green Korea, an environmental activism group....
...Hyun-Suk Kim, chief executive of Samsung’s consumer electronics division, said he wanted to begin the new decade with a vision of “personalised” robots, marking the end of “one-size-fits-all” tech....
...“For Samsung Electronics, North Korea is a good candidate to set up production lines because it can offer cheap labour, has no language barrier and has the same time [zone],” said You Seung-min, chief strategist...
...“Bixby has fallen short of the market and customers’ expectation,” said Lee Seung-woo, an analyst from Yujin Investment & Securities....
...He said the streaming company’s founders, Seung Bak and Suk Park, would “move quickly with our own distribution and creative teams to create and build more over-the-top services.”...
...But the boom times for South Korean shipbuilders are over, reckons Oh Seung-wook of Boston Consulting. “Even if the market trend reverses, it is hard to expect them to enjoy the past heydays again.”...
...Tesco put the new business under local management led by the charismatic Lee Seung-han, who stayed until last year....
...In 2004, when he was head of Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor business, Mr Hwang was invited by the late Steve Jobs to Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino....
...“He was relentless about quality, the same way Steve Jobs [Apple’s late co-founder] was relentless.”...
...Smartphones have certainly become Samsung’s main earnings driver,” said Baek Jong-suk, an analyst at Hyundai Securities....
...Lee Seung-woo, analyst at Shinyoung Securities, said Samsung’s dominance of the memory chip business meant Apple could put itself at a disadvantage by ending its supply deals....
...We are being pushed back at the moment but this will not last long,” says Park Geum-suk, acting leader....
...Oh Suk-tae, economist at Citibank, cautions that the campaign could bring about a jobless recovery....
...Yang Seung-suk, president of Glovis, Hyundai’s logistics unit, will become the president in charge of domestic and overseas sales....
...Steve Flaherty, superintendent of Virginia State Police....
...“Right now is not a good time for him to show his real stance, so it’s similar to the US situation,” said Oh Suk-tae of Citibank....
...On Thursday, Park Seung, governor of South Korea's central bank, underlined Seoul's ongoing concern about the effects of dollar weakness when he called for international action to counter a sharp appreciation...
...said Oh Suk-tae, an economist at Citibank. ?Measures to foster consumption are desperately needed as exports tail off.?...
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