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...Kim asks Choi in the video, which the pastor filmed using a camera function on his wristwatch in 2022....
...In 2006, a Korean engineer called Choi Jin-seok achieved a feat that earned him the nickname “master of semiconductor yield”....
...Events: In South Korea, the trial begins of former Samsung executive Choi Jin-seok, accused of stealing sensitive information to help set up a chip factory in China....
...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...
...Attendees include US president Joe Biden Wednesday South Korea: trial begins of former Samsung chip executive Choi Jin-seok accused of corporate espionage, stealing sensitive information to help his client...
...From star to suspect Choi Jin-seok was once a star of the Korean semiconductor industry who held executive positions at the country’s two leading memory chip producers....
...Chips spy: Once called a “master of semiconductor yield”, Choi Jin-seok now faces possible jail time after being accused of stealing Samsung’s technology to build a copycat chip plant in China....
...“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’...
...S Paul Choi, founder of Seoul-based political risk advisory StratWays Group, said it was a good sign that the two presidents had committed to upgrade talks and reinforce deterrence with “new and additional...
...Among the businesspeople convicted of paying millions of dollars in bribes was Lee Jae-yong....
...Samsung is the global leader in memory chips but the non-memory market is much bigger,” said Paul Choi, head of research at brokerage CLSA in Seoul....
...Lee Seok-hee, SK Hynix chief executive, told reporters on Monday that his company would respond to the US concerns “wisely while co-operating with interested parties”....
...Lee Jun-seok, the 36-year-old PPP chair who is widely seen as representing the views of young South Korean conservatives, said that his generation was obliged to fight the “enemies of democracy”, having...
...Yoon Seok-youl, the former chief prosecutor and leading opposition candidate, is trying to attract young voters with a pledge of 500,000 half-priced housing units....
...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....
...by Choi should be considered bribes....
...His fellow inmates include Park Geun-hye, the former president who Lee was found guilty of bribing — via the gift of horses to the equestrienne daughter of Park’s closest aide,“shaman adviser” Choi Soon-sil...
...South Korean prosecutors have indicted Lee Jae-yong, the de facto head of Samsung, on charges of stock manipulation relating to the controversial 2015 merger of two Samsung units and over allegations of...
...South Korean prosecutors have sought an arrest warrant for Lee Jae-yong, de facto head of Samsung, in a case linked to allegations of a $3.9bn accounting fraud....
...“It will take a long time for a significant amount of foreign investment to flow into the country even if sanctions are partially lifted now,” said Lee Seok-ki, a research fellow at the Korea Institute for...
...“People who wanted to have some cosmetic work done, but couldn’t do it because of a lack of time for recovery, have been increasingly visiting our clinics these days,” said Hwang Yong-seok, a Gangnam plastic...
...by Ms Choi should be considered bribes....
...At home, Samsung faces uncertainty over its de facto leader Lee Jae-yong’s legal trouble....
...Ms Choi estimates that only about 10 per cent of Korean directors are women....
...Gan Kim Yong, health minister, conceded the country would have to continue tightening measures “from time to time” to slow down infection rates and maintain sufficient capacity in the healthcare system....
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