Lee Myung Bak News
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Woori Finance Holdings Co. Chairman Lee Pal Seung plans to step down ahead of the South Korean government’s fourth attempt to find a buyer for its stake in the country’s biggest financial services group.
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On orders from a U.S. instructor, Corporal Kim Jong Chan leaps out of a Black Hawk helicopter hovering near the world’s most fortified border. The South Korean soldier rappels 90 feet down, rehearsing for the day he may have to go behind North Korean lines in the event of a war.
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Thirty-four years ago, Park Geun Hye spent her last night in South Korea’s presidential mansion washing her assassinated father’s blood-soaked shirt. Today she returns as the country’s first female president.
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It was an elite band of graduate students that in the early 1970s attended intense economics sessions in a small, austerely furnished basement under the 15th-century lodge at All Souls College at the University of Oxford.
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South Korea, the world’s biggest maker of consumer-electronics memory chips, is leading the first geological study of Colombia’s rare metals as it seeks to secure supplies for Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Corp.
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The life of Park Geun Hye, South Korea’s just-inaugurated first female president, has so far been bookended by two larger-than-life men of debatable success.
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South Korea’s newly-named finance minister, Hyun Oh Seok, may set limits on the scale of fiscal stimulus to spur growth even as a rising won adds to drags on Asia’s fourth-largest economy.
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Shin So Yoon had wanted to spend tomorrow’s national holiday in Seoul indulging her appreciation of “Edward Scissorhands” director Tim Burton’s works. Instead, she’ll be skipping the exhibition and voting.
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South Korea’s newly-named finance minister, Hyun Oh Seok, may set limits on the scale of fiscal stimulus to spur growth even as a rising won adds to drags on Asia’s fourth-largest economy.
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Ahn Cheol Soo, founder of South Korea’s biggest antivirus software maker, said he will run as an independent in the December presidential race to succeed Lee Myung Bak.
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