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...The builder’s distress recalls a liquidity crunch in 2022 triggered by the default of a Legoland theme park developer that pushed some corporate borrowing costs to the highest level in more than a decade...
...“They are growing faster than expected here, selling products at rock-bottom prices,” said Lee Seung-jin, a spokesperson for South Korea’s leading fashion platform Musinsa....
...The architect of the South Korean economic miracle was a general — Park Chung Hee (1963-1979). Historically China has always needed strong central government to achieve social stability....
...As a hardline prosecutor, he oversaw the conviction of conservative former president Park Geun-hye and Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong on bribery and corruption charges....
...Park Chung-hee, South Korea’s “strongman” president, particularly understood the need to “make public pronouncements about the importance of free markets, and then go quietly about your dirigiste business...
...“It is hard to move bilateral relations forward without resolving the forced labour issue,” said Park Cheol-hee, professor of Japanese politics at Seoul National University....
...Park Seung Jin, a Seoul-based senior analyst at Hana Securities, said the move faced challenges because the CSOP AM brand name was unfamiliar to most retail investors....
...In young performer Im Seung-soo, Broker introduces yet another gifted child in a Kore-eda film....
...September 2-5, frieze.com Yuna Park is culture reporter at The Korea Herald...
...Min Ji-hee, a credit analyst at Mirae Asset, cautioned that the credit squeeze could worsen if the BoK opted for another outsized rate increase later this month....
...And Incheon, the third-biggest city in the country, will soon start building a museum park for a new municipal art museum, as well as an expanded history museum and buildings to host commercial galleries...
...Tokyo insists that all reparation issues were resolved by a treaty signed between Japan and the government of authoritarian South Korean president Park Chung-hee in 1965....
...Similarly, Park had helped bring Korean abstract painting into modern and contemporary art history by presenting the work of artists such as Lee Ufan and Park Seo-Bo of the Dansaekhwa group in the 1970s...
...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....
...Chief executive Han Jong-hee apologised at Samsung’s shareholder meeting last month and upgraded its software to allow customers to switch off the GOS app....
...Park, 69, is the daughter of General Park Chung-hee, who seized power in a coup in 1961 and ruled South Korea as an authoritarian president between 1963 and 1979....
...He promoted Han Jong-hee, head of Samsung’s visual display business, to take charge of the new division. Read more about the Samsung reshuffle....
...He promoted Han Jong-hee, head of Samsung’s visual display business, to take charge of the new division....
...The case has already ensnared a former South Korean president Park Geun-hye, who was jailed for bribery in 2017. She was pardoned on Christmas Eve last year....
...Kim Il Sung’s commandos in 1968 infiltrated South Korea and attempted to assassinate the president Park Chung-hee but failed after a bloody gunfight near the Blue House grounds....
...Lee Kun-hee’s estate includes shareholdings in Samsung Electronics as well as smaller businesses such as Samsung Life Insurance and Samsung C&T....
...Critics allege the company has been hamstrung from pursuing further deals because its 53-year-old scion was distracted by legal problems relating to his succession from Lee Kun-hee, his late father....
...That same year, Lee Kun-hee steered Samsung’s top engineers towards mastering how to transfer millions of metal-oxide-semiconductor transistors on to a single computer chip, a new process that would help...
...Lee Kun-hee, who transformed South Korea's Samsung into one of the world’s biggest technology groups, died on Sunday at the age of 78....
...Lee Kun-hee died in October, setting the stage for his son to formally take control....
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