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...Through early-career and recent artworks and items shipped from these places of making, Wagstaff will spotlight Maggi Hambling, Mona Hatoum, Lucia Laguna, Arlene Shechet and Hyun-Sook Song....
...That competition is helping drive down the country’s fertility rate even further as young Koreans wrestle with mounting academic, financial and social burdens....
...YouTube channel revealed Kim Keon Hee, the wife of conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, had received a Christian Dior bag worth about Won3mn ($2,200) from a Korean-American pastor, Choi Jae-young...
...At a recent banquet to celebrate the achievements of his country’s navy, a relaxed Kim Jong Un sat with his wife and young daughter as they were serenaded by a choir of North Korean sailors....
...Lee Hyun-sook, who founded Kukje Gallery in 1982 and who has followed the local market for decades, says the young generation is playing a pivotal role in expanding the Korean art scene....
...“When you look at the way she is being treated by the generals and her father in the photos, she is being presented not just as a daughter, but as a princess,” said Go Myong-hyun, senior fellow at the Asan...
...“The company needs to see a recovery in Asian sales for an earnings turnround, given the relatively small portion of its US revenues,” said Park Hyun-jin, an analyst at Shinhan Investment....
...Hur Ji-hyun, a 41-year-old “upcycling” designer in Seoul, is a huge fan of soy milk....
...Add to that a cohort of star curators who have cut their teeth over the past 20 years: Sunjung Kim, Sook-Kyung Lee, Clara Kim and Christine Kim, to name just a few....
...Violetsby Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Anton Hur, W&N £14.99 Set in 1970s South Korea, this novel by the winner of the 2012 Man Asian literary prize follows San, a young florist aching to be seen and...
...Unlike rival platforms developed by gaming companies, it is dominated by young female users....
...Lee Sook-jong adds: “In Korea, a president rules for five years. But a chaebol family rules forever.”...
...“He is young enough to have long-term goals, and North Korea’s weapons development is more than sufficient for regime survival.”...
...Kyung Kye-hyun, chief executive of affiliate Samsung Electro-Mechanics, will head the chip business, which accounts for almost two-thirds of the company’s operating profit....
...Coupang has countered that a police investigation determined the company was not responsible for Park Hyun-kyung’s death....
...“Before the famine, women were able to stay at home — they didn’t know anything about earning money,” says Hyun....
...Hyun-joo Mo, a Seoul-based anthropologist and expert on youth culture in Asia, said that in some ways China’s entertainment companies were paying the price for trying to replicate the growth of South Korea...
...Hyun-joo Mo, a Seoul-based anthropologist, said while people were facing similar problems around the world, Seoul’s already extreme drinking culture had grown more “dangerous”....
...A special committee formed by President Moon Jae-in has already launched a suite of policies aimed at addressing the low birth rate, centred on financial support for families with young children....
...Another online petition, posted by Ah-Hyun Angela Lee, a student in Frankfurt-am-Main, registered more than 8,000 signatures....
...The form has been notably revisited in recent years by contemporary artist Park Young-sook (a version sold for $125,000 at Phillips New York in 2017), as well as Loewe finalist Hyejeong Kim, who describes...
...Im Guk-hyun, the financial industry team leader in the Seoul government, thinks the city’s competitiveness has been boosted recently by the imposition of the national-security law in Hong Kong and South...
...Kwon Young-jin, the mayor of Daegu, asked its 2.4m residents to avoid travel, stay home and wear masks even indoors....
...“Young lovers want to meet each other, no matter what,” she said. “I am so happy that the business is booming.” South Korea was stunned by the rapid spread of the deadly coronavirus in late February....
...Among those pardoned in earlier Augusts by former president Park were SK’s Chey, in 2015, and Lee Jay-hyun, Lee Jae-yong’s cousin and head of retailer CJ group, in 2016....
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