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...But his image as a graft-buster was badly undermined by a scandal surrounding his wife, first lady Kim Keon Hee, over her acceptance of a Christian Dior bag worth about Won3mn ($2,200) from a Korean-American...
...“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....
...The scandal traces back to December last year, when a liberal YouTube channel revealed Kim Keon Hee, the wife of conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, had received a Christian Dior bag worth...
...Last month, Chey Tae-won, chair of SK Hynix parent SK Group, held a virtual meeting with the US president to announce $22bn in semiconductor, electric vehicle battery and green technology investments in...
...Lee said Hyundai was doing “exceptionally well” in the country because of its focus on compact cars tailored for the Indian market....
...Included in the permanent displays are Korean jewellery artists such as Kim Seunghee and Yun Sang-hee, and traditional Korean jewellery items such as norigae pendants....
...Seok-hee of law firm Kim & Chang....
...She is bringing works by more than 30 contemporary South Korean artists to London, including Na Ri Choi, Ha Jin Lee and Sung Hee Kim. “The artists do not pay to participate....
...This was the management theory of late Samsung group chair Lee Kun-hee. He built the South Korean conglomerate into a $280bn giant....
...In 2015, Chey Tae-won, head of SK Group, South Korea’s third-biggest company, was pardoned by Park. However, the issue of pardons deeply divide South Koreans....
...I discovered that this baby-faced front row idol was Lee Tae-yong, or Taeyong, the South Korean rapper, singer and songwriter and leader of the K-pop boy band NCT....
...The private collection of the late Samsung chair Lee Kun-hee, which contains more than 23,000 artworks, was donated to South Korea’s national museums in 2021 in the hope that it could be accepted as a payment...
...Unlike his father Lee Kun-hee, the son is no business genius....
...He credits South Korea’s “long history of art collecting”, for example the late Samsung group chair Lee Kun-hee, whose collection of 23,000 items was donated to national museums recently....
...But Lee Hee-ja, a representative for victims, said that “what the victims’ families want to see is the Japanese government and companies sincerely apologise to the victims”....
...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....
...Lee, who had served jail time over a bribery conviction but received a presidential pardon in August, fills a position that had been vacant since the death of his father, Lee Kun-hee, in 2020....
...Lee Min-hee, an analyst at BNK Securities, estimated that Samsung’s smartphone shipments had fallen about 16 per cent quarter on quarter to 62mn units in the second quarter....
...Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest memory chipmaker, is investing $17bn in a new foundry in Texas, while SK Group chair Chey Tae-won has announced $52bn in US investments between now and 2030....
...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....
...He promoted Han Jong-hee, head of Samsung’s visual display business, to take charge of the new division....
...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....
...Key developments: Lee has spent the last four years in and out of prison, due largely to his determination to succeed his father, Lee Kun-hee, who ruled Samsung for almost three decades before he was hospitalised...
...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....
...Lee has denied any such associations....
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