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...But finance minister Choi retains his faith that the country’s economy can be reformed, insisting that “dynamism is embedded in the Korean DNA”....
...“The US tends to give heavier punishment for financial criminals than Korea, but Kwon won’t be able to avoid arrest as soon as he enters his home country,” said Choi Hwoain, a crypto expert in Seoul....
...“If the economy doesn’t improve, the real estate sector won’t improve,” said Leung....
...In Korea, collector demographics have begun to skew younger as tastes expand from blue-chip stalwarts such as Yayoi Kusama or Lee Ufan towards more emerging artists such as Woo Kuk Won and Kim Sunwoo....
...Yoojin Choi was co-curator of “Hallyu!...
...“The government is trying hard to defend the psychologically important Won1,400 threshold, drawing a red line against it,” said Kim Seung-hyuk, a researcher at NH Futures....
...“The AI-related euphoria served as a trigger for the chipmakers’ rally on top of growing expectations for the industry’s upturn in the second half,” said Lee Chai-won, chair of Life Asset Management....
...You won’t find veggies masquerading as meat or traditionally meat-based meals rendered in plants....
...It wasn’t the first collision between formal economics and the school of life, and it won’t be the last....
...More election news: Greece’s Kyriakos Mitsotakis pledged to continue to steer his country out of economic turmoil after his New Democracy party won a second term in yesterday’s election. 4....
...Kepco, which issued $27bn of bonds last year, is expected to have made a net loss of 30tn won ($24bn) in 2022, according to South Korea’s minister of trade, industry and energy, compared with a 6tn won loss...
...Eun Young Choi, director of the Justice Department’s national cryptocurrency enforcement team, told my colleague Stefania Palma that the DoJ doesn’t share the same concerns....
...Together with Chinese tech giant Xiaomi, AMTD won a coveted digital banking licence in Hong Kong in 2019, but industry insiders are confused by the bank’s strategy....
...In South Korea, Wook-kyung Choi saturated her canvases with swooping, ragged oranges, scarlets and ochres, a razzle-dazzle of green and blue stripes interspersed with scintillating white impasto — abstract...
...Choi could not immediately be reached for comment. AMTD Group holds a digital banking licence in Hong Kong, which it won in 2019 in a consortium with Xiaomi, the Chinese technology company....
...But Yoon Hyuk-jin, an analyst at SK Securities, said the group still “needs to invest more in upstream projects to boost its supply chain stability”....
...Hybe founder Bang Si-hyuk is seeking to expand his company beyond music creation and star management into a global entertainment platform....
...A friend sends me a photo of a packet of pak choi with a large Gucci label on it alongside a rather lovely Louis Vuitton box with some pretty cakes in it....
...He said, ‘You won’t find anything on me....
...“We expect a significant increase in second-half sales with new merchandise released in the second quarter,” the company’s chief executive Park Ji-won told analysts after the earnings announcement....
...Paul Choi, an economist at CLSA, an investment group, said a victory for Lee might provide a short-term “steroid effect” but risked the long-term health of Asia’s fourth-biggest economy....
...“China can no longer be where Korean companies focus,” said Choi Kwang-wook, president of J&J Asset Management, an investor in South Korean entertainment and gaming groups....
...“Valuations seem stretched but the rally going forward depends on corporate results,” said VIP’s Mr Choi....
...That changed when the pro-democracy camp won a crushing victory with a record turnout in the municipal council election in November....
...“We are trying to secure the release of our sailors and the ship as soon as possible,” Choi Young-sam, foreign ministry spokesperson, said....
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