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...“Everybody I talk to in European governments is talking about ‘de-risking,’” Min-suk Sung, chief commercial officer of South Korean battery maker SK On, told the Financial Times....
...But Young Ki Kim, head of investment banking for JPMorgan in Seoul, says that local private equity’s rise since the 2005 capital markets law has long since transformed the way the industry is perceived by...
...Anti-coup demonstrators have massed outside the Chinese embassy in Yangon over the past week, holding placards attacking Beijing or showing President Xi Jinping dangling senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the...
...Tae Yong-ho says he was 14 years old when he first began to comprehend the true cruelty of the songbun, Kim Il Sung’s class system....
...She has been groomed for power since her teens by North Korean propaganda master Kim Ki Nam, according to Michael Madden, a US expert in North Korean leadership....
...“We have nothing to confirm and there has been no unusual activity detected in North Korea,” said Kang Min-seok, a spokesperson for the presidential office in Seoul....
...The opening track and lead single, “Nap Chape”, sung in an invented Creole (where the rest of the album is in standard Haitian Creole), has a swaggering riff....
...With experience and greater resources, the rapid response teams’ capabilities have advanced significantly, according to Hwang Se-min, a doctor of preventive medicine turned Covid-19 investigator based at...
...Barclays has appointed Carrie Chen as vice-chairman of greater China banking and Sung-Min Chung as head of technology in banking for Asia-Pacific....
..., is a call to arms sung by the African-American opera singer Karen Parks....
...The initiatives feel long overdue for workers like Baek Sung-jin, a 25-year-old man who used to work for a second-hand car seller....
...Jo Song Gil, a 44-year-old diplomat, has been missing for the past two months, South Korean lawmaker Kim Min-ki told reporters on Thursday after being briefed by Seoul’s National Intelligence Service....
...On Friday, Mr Moon moved to revitalise his economic team by replacing Kim Dong-yeon, finance minister, and Jang Ha-sung, presidential chief of staff for policy....
...“Things are likely to get worse as prices keep falling,” said Chung Sung-kook, a manager at the Nokstop factory. “I wish there was more work because many days pass with almost none.”...
...The opener, “Welcome”, is a scat-sung union of the southern and northern shores of the Mediterranean, a meditation on the journeys of refugees and migrants — the modern equivalents of the people who ended...
...“North Korea institutionalised state companies’ market economy activities by legalising them after Chairman Kim took power,” said Lee Seok-ki, a researcher at the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics...
...“I really don’t understand how this kind of incident could happen at a big company like Samsung Securities,” said Ahn Sung-hak, researcher at Hana Institute of Finance....
...Jenkins was renamed Min Hyung Chang and had his tattoo cut out by doctors, without anaesthetic....
...Korean companies will now have to target more of the premium segment for further growth in China,” says Sohn Sung-min at Foundation of Korea Cosmetic Industry Institute....
...Two other Samsung executives, Choi Gee-sung and Jang Choong-ki, were also convicted in the same trial and sentenced to four years in prison. A verdict in Ms Park’s trial is expected in October....
...In the match against Tottenham, the stadium was filled with scores of South Koreans who travelled specifically to watch two of their country’s footballers, Swansea’s Ki Sung-yueng and Spurs’ Son Heung-min...
...Ban Ki-sang, who is Ban Ki-moon’s brother, has not been arrested and could not immediately be reached for comment....
...The other two charged are president Chang Choong-ki and executive vice-president Hwang Sung-soo. Mr Choi, Mr Chang and Mr Park have resigned, Samsung said on Tuesday....
...Choi Ji-sung and Jang Choong-ki, two other Samsung executives, are facing questioning as witnesses. Additional reporting by Kang Buseong...
...In 2004, after finally making it from North Korea to safety in Seoul, Jang Jin-sung was administered with a series of routine vaccinations....
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