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...Shin, who gained gallery representation only this year....
...Ward also has a show at Milan’s Pirelli HangarBicocca foundation (until July 28), while gallery artist Kim Yun Shin is one of the participants in the Biennale’s main Foreigners Everywhere exhibition....
...Included in the permanent displays are Korean jewellery artists such as Kim Seunghee and Yun Sang-hee, and traditional Korean jewellery items such as norigae pendants....
...Mercury, a Japanophile, also amassed classic works such as the woodblock print “Sudden Shower over the Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake” (1857, est £30,000-£50,000) by Utagawa Hiroshige....
...“We are sending a signal to the North Korean elites,” says Ethan Hee-Seok Shin, one of the TJWG’s co-founders....
...“The outbreak of the disease was caused by a devil that wants to block Shincheonji’s rapid rise,” said Lee Man-hee, founder of the church group, in a letter to followers....
...On Monday, Lee Man-hee, the 88-year-old founder and leader of the secretive church, bowed before national television in a gesture of remorse....
...Months after the payment Samsung received a presidential pardon from Lee for its chairman Lee Kun-hee, who was at that point serving a suspended sentence for tax evasion....
...Mun Seon hee’s “border” in “Trace”, for example, separates the heard from the unheard in stories of Korea’s past....
...Or the creepy “Thaw (Takaki Masao)”, a naked effigy of the dictator Park Chung-Hee, wearing his trademark Ray-Ban shades and encased in a fibreglass “block of ice”....
...Among them were Choi Eun-hee, the actress, and Shin Sang-Ok, her husband director, who were taken from a beach in Hong Kong to Pyongyang and forced to produce propaganda films for the regime....
...This is the true story of South Korea’s glamorous couple, actress Choi Eun-hee and director Shin Sang-ok, and their eight years in captivity at the hands of North Korea’s Kim Jong-il, who had a burning ambition...
...Lee Cheol-hee, a member of the ruling Democratic party, on Tuesday said hackers had broken into a defence data centre in September last year....
...When asked for her occupation by judge Kim Se-yun as the historic trial began, Ms Park replied: “I don’t have any.”...
...“A sustainable price recovery is unlikely, given the solar industry’s persistent overcapacity problem,” says Shin Hyun-joon at Hanwha Securities....
...“What is your occupation,” asked judge Kim Se-yun....
...Ms Park, the daughter of former South Korean President Park Chung Hee, has denied any wrongdoing, saying that “the truth will be definitely unearthed”....
...Co-CEOs JK Shin and Yoon Boo-keun will step down....
...This absorbing documentary has no definitive answer to the swirl of uncertainty surrounding the abduction of South Korean film-maker Shin Sang-ok and his wife Choi Eun-hee in 1978, but it errs on the side...
...“The government is sitting idly by while passing the buck to China,” said Kim Shin-do, a professor of environmental engineering at the University of Seoul....
...Mr Shin, 61, took the helm of the IT and mobile communications division in 2012....
...“People are angry because they feel betrayed by her,” said Shin Yul, a professor of politics at Myongji University....
...Leadership, says Chung Sun-sup, head of corporate analysis group Chaebul.com, has unravelled since chairman Lee Kun-hee was hospitalised in May 2014....
...There were no other key role changes among the promotions announced, with no change in title for Samsung vice-chairman Lee Jae-yong, the only son of chairman Lee Kun-hee....
...and his actress wife Choi Eun-hee, and put them to work building a film industry in the North....
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