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...A convicted former minister vowing revenge against conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol has helped deliver a resounding defeat to the South Korean leader in parliamentary elections....
...Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s former chief prosecutor who oversaw Lee and Park’s convictions, has since been elected the country’s president....
...He wants KT&G to appoint Cha Suk-yong, chief executive of leading domestic cosmetics group LG H&H, and Hwang Ou-jin, the former head of Prudential Life Insurance, as outside directors....
...As a hardline prosecutor, he oversaw the conviction of conservative former president Park Geun-hye and Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong on bribery and corruption charges....
...Yoon Suk Yeol, the prosecutor who oversaw Lee and Park’s convictions, has since been elected as the country’s president....
...“The package announced today falls short of my expectations because it lacks forceful measures,” said Albert Yong, managing partner at Petra Capital Management in Seoul....
...A convicted former minister has helped to deliver a resounding defeat to conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol in parliamentary elections....
...“This is not a matter for negotiations or compromise,” President Yoon Suk Yeol said....
...South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol last week pardoned 12 business leaders convicted of offences ranging from misappropriation of company funds to embezzlement with the aim of “revitalising the domestic...
...The stand-off at Samsung comes amid a wider crackdown on trade unions in South Korea by the country’s conservative president Yoon Suk Yeol....
...The billionaire scion of Samsung’s ruling family will be formally granted a pardon on Monday by president Yoon Suk-yeol — who as a prosecutor had led Lee Jae-yong prosecution on bribery charges....
...SJ Cho, a 43-year-old employee at one of the country’s biggest conglomerates, recalls once working for 10 days during his holiday....
...The billionaire scion of Samsung’s ruling family will be formally granted the pardon on Monday by president Yoon Suk-yeol, who as a prosecutor had led Lee’s prosecution on bribery charges....
...South Korea will take steps to spur capital inflows and increase dollar liquidity, president Yoon Suk-yeold said, as the won continued its slide in the face of the US Federal Reserve’s aggressive tightening...
...“Many Chinese businesses are manufacturing intermediate goods, which we mainly export,” Rhee Chang-yong, the governor of the Bank of Korea, told lawmakers in May....
...President Yoon Suk-yeol on Friday warned of a looming “economic crisis”, saying: “Our lawn currently lies in the path of the typhoon.”...
...South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol said during a joint press conference with Biden in Seoul on Saturday that the two leaders had discussed the “timely deployment” of US strategic assets including fighters...
...There is optimism within the company that Lee, a scion of the company’s founding family, will receive a pardon from President Yoon Suk-yeol next month....
...Kim Yong-soo, professor of nuclear engineering at Hanyang University in Seoul, said that the war in Ukraine had exposed Moon’s nuclear policy as unviable....
...Last month, the administration of President Yoon Suk-yeol, who assumed office in May, accused the former government of committing a “crime against humanity”....
...Yoon Suk-yeol, the candidate of the opposition conservative People Power party, has pledged a harder line against Beijing, promising “strategic clarity” on aligning more closely with the US and defence of...
...Bernie Cho still remembers his visit to the smoking area of Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris in 2010....
...Lee and his conservative opponent Yoon Suk-yeol, a former chief prosecutor and political neophyte, are neck and neck in a contest that has been defined by scandal, mudslinging, family drama and insinuations...
...Ko Yong Suk, the North Korean leader’s aunt who was tracked down by former FT and Washington Post journalist Anna Fifield in 2016, had lived in obscurity in the US since 1998, running a dry-cleaners with...
...Cho Yong-sun, an analyst at SK Securities, said uncertainty had risen after Baemin came under fire in April when it attempted to raise commission fees for restaurateurs....
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