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...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....
...With Simon Rattle having departed and plans for a new concert hall in the City of London long shelved, the London Symphony Orchestra could be forgiven for feeling down in the dumps....
...Never forget: Auschwitz and the new anti-Semitism Simon Schama Seventy-five years after the liberation of history’s most notorious concentration camp, contributing editor Schama revisits the dark history...
...For a somewhat weightier analysis of the human condition, one may look to Bright Morning Star by Simon Morden (NewCon Press, RRP£12.99)....
...What else we’re reading Simon Schama on the new anti-Semitism The degradations of anti-Semitism did not begin with the Nazis and would not end with them....
...We obviously could not invite them to our house in Hirakawa-cho, not far from the Japanese Diet and well known as a discreet neighbourhood where politicians kept their mistresses....
...Simon Lee had a solo show for Yun in September; and Olivier Malingue opened his London gallery in October with Cho Yong-Ik (works up to $180,000; to December 16)....
...Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister, said he would work with other nations to “strongly demand” that North Korea call off the launch, while Cho Tae-yong, a national security adviser to South Korean President...
...Such hesitation to plunge into the start-up scene is warranted, says Cho Dal-ho, a researcher at the Seoul Institute....
...a tougher approach from the courts towards the chaebol families, with custodial sentences in the past three years given to several senior figures including Mr Chey, Hanwha patriarch Kim Seung-youn and Cho...
...Cho is one of several prominent members of chaebol families to have been jailed over the past three years....
...two companies say that they aim for long-term synergies . . . we think that Samsung Group intends to enable [Lee Jae-yong] to directly control the stake of Samsung C&T in Samsung Electronics,” said Brian Cho...
...Prosecutors announced on Wednesday that Ms Cho had been indicted on charges including violations of aviation safety regulations, after her alleged interference with the flight plan....
...The FT's Simon Mundy looks at how public attitudes are hardening towards the families who control South Korea's chaebol business groups....
...Cho Tae-yong, South Korea’s first vice foreign minister, told parliament that the government “does not take [Ms Sherman’s] comments lightly”, and that it was asking Washington “if there is any change to...
...However, his imprisonment — along with that of the chairmen of Hanwha, CJ and LIG, and Cho Hyun-ah of Korean Air — suggests a sterner approach from the courts in recent years....
...That’s Cho business One sympathises with Cho Hyun-ah, the Korean Air executive who objected when in-flight nuts were served to her in a bag, not on a plate....
...“In the long run I think jeonse will disappear,” says Cho Joo-hyun, a professor at Konkuk University. “If you don’t expect huge capital gains as before, [the landlord] should prefer monthly rent.”...
...Cho Gye-woong, a member of the Salvation Sect, rejected claims Mr Yoo had made huge sums from its members by inducing them to buy his artworks....
...bank branches here to slow their renmimbi deposit-building late last year as part of our risk management, because it is not desirable for local investors to have too big exposure to one country," said Cho...
...It is time to expand capacity to boost sales,” says Cho Soo-hong, analyst at Woori Investment & Securities....
...But Mr Cho questioned this analysis. “Investors still do not regard the Korean won as a safe asset,” he said....
...begun shifting their focus away from the Middle East, which accounted for 41 per cent of their new orders in the first 10 months of this year, compared with 73 per cent in all of 2009, according to Brian Cho...
...The main reason for Ms Park’s visit to London this week is to gain a better understanding of the city’s global financial centre, according to Cho Won-dong, her chief economic adviser....
...“Once this kind of plane is commercialised, it has a great future,” Mr Cho says....
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