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...Samsung chair Lee Jae-yong was acquitted of stock manipulation and accounting fraud charges on Monday in connection with a controversial merger almost a decade ago....
...South Korean prosecutors are seeking a five-year jail term for Samsung chair Lee Jae-yong over charges of accounting fraud and stock manipulation connected to the controversial 2015 merger of two of the...
...House on a Hill, Eric Nam’s third studio album, is out now...
...“Samsung and LG need each other because the all-out display war between Korea and China has spread to the premium market,” said Nam Sang-uk, a researcher at the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics &...
...Bayfront Park is a great vantage point (get there early)....
...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....
...Lastly, on reading Eric Nam’s guide to Seoul, and having seen the film Past Lives last weekend, I am more determined than ever to visit Korea....
...Last year, Yoon issued a pardon to Samsung princeling Lee Jae-yong, who served 19 months in prison for his role in a bribery scandal that also led to the imprisonment of former conservative president Park...
...Investors are watching closely, said Park Yoo-kyung, an investment adviser on governance at APG Asset Management....
...Inequality is a fatal weapon in Cho Nam-Joo’s second novel Saha....
...“Many Chinese businesses are manufacturing intermediate goods, which we mainly export,” Rhee Chang-yong, the governor of the Bank of Korea, told lawmakers last month....
...was released from prison on parole last year by the administration of Yoon’s predecessor, Moon Jae-in, having served 19 months of a 30 month prison sentence in for bribing former conservative President Park...
...Albert Yong, managing partner at Seoul-based hedge fund Petra Capital Management, said SM’s annual meeting next month would be crucial. “The AGM will be a watershed moment for SM’s future....
...Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong is to receive a presidential pardon next week, paving the way for him to retake the helm of South Korea’s biggest company as it confronts slowing demand in the global chip sector...
...Viet, who was born in Hội An, takes pride in making the group fresh coffee every morning, while Nam is the on-hand mechanic....
...He has launched an NFT project, a platform (still in beta) called Etnah, whose first drop was “Digital Bodyscape 76-3” by Lee Kun-Yong....
...The vast majority of Kenyans live in the south alongside the rail line that connects Mombasa on the coast and Kisumu on Nam Lolwe (Lake Victoria)....
...Customers are not buying chips as demand has collapsed,” said JJ Park, an analyst at JPMorgan in Seoul....
...September 2-5, frieze.com Yuna Park is culture reporter at The Korea Herald...
...“We should look at whether the cheap tariffs that were the backbone of Korean corporate competitiveness for decades are sustainable,” said Kim Yong-beom, who served as first vice minister at South Korea’...
...Finance minister Hong Nam-ki said on Tuesday that curbing the rise in consumer prices was urgent to combat persistent inflationary pressure....
...Lee was released from prison on parole last year, having served 60 per cent of his sentence for bribing former President Park Geun-hye to secure his family’s control of Samsung Electronics....
...Works by Nam June Paik, whom he assisted when he lived in New York, also hang with those of Kounellis on the walls. But home life with Vernon has brought out another side to the artist....
...Yoon, a former prosecutor, built his popularity on a reputation for fearless law enforcement, including the jailing of Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong and Park Geun-hye, the former conservative president, over...
...Rhee Chang-yong, the BoK’s newly confirmed governor, said on Monday that he “was more worried about inflation” than about the country’s growth prospects, but added he would “still need to look at the data...
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