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...Kang Dong-wan, a professor at Dong-a University in Seoul who has interviewed North Korean workers in Russia this year, said while the number of North Koreans on larger construction sites has fallen, workers...
...Sometimes sobriety can make things seem rather wan....
...Lee Kim Yew, a property tycoon close to Mr Mahathir who became embroiled in a tax dispute with the Najib government, said the new prime minister’s change of political heart and public apologies for past...
...Lam’s show was itself a surprise: I was startled, I told her, by the quiet, intense, Zen-like work of the artist Kim Tschang-Yeul — he paints drops of water, often grey on grey — in the gallery of a woman...
...Additional reporting by Wan Li...
...Nikkei staff writers Jun Suzuki in Jakarta, Rosemary Marandi in Mumbai and Kim Jaewon in Seoul contributed to this story....
...“This year she wanted to focus on reforms but now she’s lost the driving force,” Ms Kim said....
...On the list were Lee Byung-kee, Ms Park’s chief of staff, Huh Tae-yeol and Kim Ki-choon, his two predecessors, Lee Wan-koo, the prime minister, and Hong Moon-jong, a lawmaker who managed the 2012 election...
...Just a few years after he helped the government spearhead a bold overseas investment drive, Sung Wan-jong was found hanging by his tie from a tree in northern Seoul, undone by one of South Korea’s most high-profile...
...“This horrible case should be an occasion for big changes,” said Kim Hyung-wan, head of the Korea Human Rights Policy Institute....
...Additional reporting by Christian Shepherd, Wan Li and Kang Buseong...
...Word of the procedure has spread in the industry; about half the clinic’s customers are working as announcers or seeking work in the field, and the proportion continues to grow, says Kim Dho-wan, director...
Kim Chan Wan Fong on her search for employment
...For Beijing, the statement from Kim Gye-wan brings relief as North Korea’s closest ally has been under growing pressure both at home and abroad to exert influence on Pyongyang to abandon its brinkmanship...
...As finance minister Bahk Jae Wan said, South Korea has experienced such shocks before – and has recovered quickly....
...Ki Wan Kim, global marketing officer, says: “At the time, we wanted to push forward globally. It was bad timing but we must keep globalising.” Westerners still have the upper hand in the jobs market....
...“We expect the first-quarter economy to grow a little bit faster than earlier expectations on government spending,” Kim Young-bae, the BoK’s director general, told reporters on Friday....
...The National Pension Service, the biggest Korean investor, has made it known that it bought stocks on Monday, while central bank governor Kim Choong-soo and finance minister Bahk Jae-wan say they will stabilise...
...Requesting songs by Kim Choo Ja, a legendary old singer, is bound to get a reaction....
...Kim Choong-soo, the BoK governor (pictured), admitted on Thursday the bank might miss its 2011 inflation target of 4 per cent....
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