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...“We can’t rule out the possibility of the measure being expanded to other items,” said Joo Young-joon, South Korea’s deputy commerce minister....
...“People lowered their guard too early as the government hastily relaxed antivirus measures in the name of the economy and people’s fatigue,” said Kim Woo-joo, a professor of infectious disease at Korea University...
...Lee Na-young, professor of sociology at Chung-Ang University, said the sentence was “nonsense”. “It is very light. If it were the US, they would be sentenced to life imprisonment,” she said....
...“Favouritism prevails in our society due to strong political, academic and blood ties,” said Chung Seon-sup, head of corporate analysis group Chaebul.com....
...“Samsung is scrambling to improve its disgraced image and working so hard to reform their brand following the political scandal,” says Park Joo Geun, head of corporate watchdog CEO Score....
...Joo Hyun-bahn, Mr Ban’s nephew, denied the charges and was granted bail at a court hearing in New York after he and his father, Ban Ki-sang, were indicted on Tuesday....
...Proceeds from the sale will allow NOL to record “a significant book gain,” said Tan Hua Joo, consultant at Alphaliner, a shipping consultancy in Singapore....
...Inside, Seung has modernised the home where he and his wife, Choi Duk-joo, come to rest, work and sometimes sleep, although their primary residence is a flat above his studio....
...“In the past, people left North Korea to escape starvation or poverty but today there are many more who flee because they want to be free,” says Ms Joo, 22....
...way out of the current economic slump through exports, but retail companies have no way to boost sales other than forcing them on to their vendors, given the limited domestic market size,” says Lee Dong-joo...
...The stock market tends to fall sharply for a couple of days but it always rebounds,” says Chung In-ki at Truston asset management....
...Ms Park, who has a wafer-thin lead in opinion polls, is the daughter of Park Chung-hee, the army strongman who ruled in increasingly dictatorial style for 18 years until 1979....
...“The country has great potential but it will not be easy to keep winning orders as its competitors will start guarding against it,” says Whang Joo-ho, professor of nuclear engineering at Kyunghee University...
...Lee Joo-heung, a 45-year-old company manager in a yellow Hawaiian shirt, attended a recent course because he wanted to reflect on his past and prepare for his death....
...“This is a critical moment,” said Chung Dong-joo of the Korea House Builders’ Association....
...The judge rejected a request to arrest Paul Yoo, head of Lone Star Korea, and Chung Hun-joo, head of Hudson Korea, saying that prosecutors do not have to detain them for further investigation into the case...
...Baek Seung-joo, head of North Korean studies at the Korea Institute for Defense Analysis, said: ?He must know that people?s loyalties are changing negatively....
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