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...Lee Jae-min, a law professor at Seoul National University and an expert in international trade disputes, said the US was using subsidies to “lure” Korean chipmakers into its regulatory orbit....
...“Korea is facing an unprecedented crisis,” said Oh Suk-tae, an economist at Société Générale in Seoul. “The country will soon start to experience negative growth as its population falls....
...Lee Sang-ho, a director at the Federation of Korean Industries, a lobby group for big conglomerates, said “market liquidity is drying up, making it difficult for many companies to sell bonds and pay back...
...“Ho Ching, whom I greatly admire, encouraged me to create an Asian firm, owned and operated by Asians, for Asia,” says Kim....
...One focuses on Sunja’s formative years under the shadow of colonial subjugation and her two first loves — her doting father and, later, the new director at the fish market, Koh Hansu (Lee Min-ho), a Gatsby-esque...
...However, in the three months since market volatility started to hit elevated levels in November, led by a correction in previously gung-ho tech stocks, there are no signs of this advantage emerging....
...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....
...Tae Yong-ho’s lunch interview with the FT (“Defector Tae Yong-ho: ‘A very small spark could topple Kim Jong Un’”, Life & Arts, FT Weekend, February 13) provided great insights into Kim Jong Un’s North Korea...
...“There is a limit to relying on Netflix too much,” says Park Hyuck-tae, industrial policy team leader at KOCCA, which coordinates development and promotion of the Korean content industry....
...Mr Ryu’s escape follows the defections of other diplomats including Jo Song Gil from Italy in 2018 and Tae Yong Ho from the UK in 2016....
...(FT) Lunch with the FT: North Korean defector Tae Yong-ho “A very small spark” is all it would take to topple Kim Jong Un, the former North Korean diplomat told Edward White over lunch in South Korea, where...
...On Monday, Yoon Tae-ho, a South Korean health ministry official, said: “The [defector] is neither registered as a Covid-19 patient nor classified as a person who came in contact with virus patients.”...
...Similar statistics apply to the stints behind bars of other chaebol leaders, including Chey Tae-won, the head of South Korea’s third-biggest company, SK Group....
...“We believe the next two to three weeks will be very crucial,” said Yoon Tae-ho, a senior government health official....
...Lee Ji-ho’s name has been changed at the request of his parents...
...His son, Cho Won-tae, the company’s president and a board member, is widely expected to succeed his late father as chairman....
...On Thursday, prosecutors raided the offices of Chung Hyun-ho, head of the task force, and Kim Tae-han, chief executive of Samsung BioLogics, state news agency Yonhap reported....
...Mr Moon on Tuesday named Noh Young-min, Seoul’s ambassador to China and one of his closest advisers, as chief of staff and appointed new top secretaries for political affairs and public relations....
...In Korea, its representative office in Seoul has been upgraded to the status of a wholly owned subsidiary and Um Tae-jong was recruited as country head in January 2018....
...Thae Yong Ho, North Korea’s former deputy ambassador to Britain, became the highest-ranking North Korean diplomat to defect to South Korea in 2016....
...Hana says minimum monthly wages for factory workers there in 2014 were just $63.8, lower than the $95.8 in Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City) and $194 in China (Qingdao)....
...South Korean prosecutors are seeking an arrest warrant for Korean Air chairman Cho Yang-ho over allegations including embezzlement and breach of trust, deepening woes at the country’s flagship carrier....
...That stupidity seems to have been inherited by the daughters of Cho Yang-ho, chairman of Korean Air....
...He added that he had invited Ri Yong Ho, his North Korean counterpart, to meet in New York next week when both men were scheduled to attend the UN General Assembly....
...Cho Hyun-min, the airline’s senior vice-president and the youngest daughter of chairman Cho Yang-ho, is facing calls to step down after she allegedly threw water in the face of an advertising agency official...
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