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...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....
...“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....
...“Geographically, we find major international electronics brands such as Apple and Samsung trying to lower dependence on making products inside China,” said Eddie Han, a senior analyst with Isaiah Research...
...The shake-up comes as Lee Jae-yong, the group’s third-generation heir, has started playing an active management role four months after being released from prison....
...Investors have also raised questions about Samsung’s growth strategy in the wake of group scion Lee Jae-yong’s release from prison and US tour last year....
...He promoted Han Jong-hee, head of Samsung’s visual display business, to take charge of the new division. Read more about the Samsung reshuffle....
...Other successful assassinations include Choi Duk-keun, a South Korean diplomat killed in Vladivostok in 1996, and Yi Han Yong, nephew of late leader Kim Jong Il, who was shot dead in Seoul a year later....
...Four months after being released from prison, Samsung’s third-generation heir Lee Jae-yong is taking a more active role in the company by reshuffling management: Han Jong-hee, head of Samsung’s visual display...
...They have a lot of money,” said Im Han-kyu, a 55-year-old cleaner. “This wouldn’t make a big difference to their livelihoods because money makes money.”...
...They point to the case of Yi Han Yong, the nephew of Kim Jong Il — Kim Jong Un’s father — who defected in 1982....
...Samsung’s chairman Lee Kun-hee died on Sunday, although the group has been run by his son and vice-chairman Lee Jae-yong for six years....
...“Many of them are overshooting their fundamentals just on expectations of future growth potential,” said Albert Yong, head of Seoul-based hedge fund Petra Capital Management....
...At a polling station just north of Seoul’s Han river at Seongdong-gu on Friday, a long line of mask-wearing South Koreans waited patiently, each a metre apart from their fellow citizens....
...On Thursday, prosecutors raided the offices of Chung Hyun-ho, head of the task force, and Kim Tae-han, chief executive of Samsung BioLogics, state news agency Yonhap reported....
...Lee Jae-yong, the company’s billionaire chief, is awaiting a final appeals ruling in a bribery case that saw him incarcerated for a year until last February....
...“Most of us are keen to go back once sanctions are lifted,” said Shin Han-yong, chairman of an association of Kaesong companies....
...Yong Song, an official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs....
...The regulator also advised that Kim Tae-Han, the chief executive of Samsung BioLogics, be dismissed....
...“The North has been filling up warehouses with unknown remains as they think they can be used as bargaining chips,” Han Myo-sook, who did excavation work in North Korea in the 1990s, told South Korean media...
...Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson Just finished: Factfulness by Hans Rosling; I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong Three Questions Dr Fouzia Shafique,...
...“The verdict is outrageous and the sentence is much worse,” says Choi Han-soo, a research fellow at the government-sponsored Korea Institute of Public Finance....
...“The South Korean government’s attitude is more weighted in favour of improving relations between the two Koreas than resolving the North’s nuclear issue,” says Kim Seong-han, a former vice foreign minister...
...Samsung’s heir apparent Lee Jae-yong was arrested early Friday morning for bribery, embezzlement and perjury in connection with a massive corruption scandal that is poised to topple South Korean President...
...Samsung’s de facto leader Lee Jae-yong has been arrested on suspicion of bribery, embezzlement and perjury in connection with South Korea’s political corruption scandal, upending the succession and restructuring...
...But the promising start of Lee Jae-yong, the head of South Korea’s biggest conglomerate, has ended in a scandal reaching to the top levels of government, leaving the country rudderless....
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