Kim Jung-tae, who heads the biggest, Kookmin, plans to have two dozen private-banking branches by the end of this year.
"The management of Hyundai Motor is deep, and the departure of Chung Se Yung will not have a significant impact, " asserts Kim Jung Soo, a senior Hyundai manager.
Vause has anchored a number of breaking news stories on both networks including the Arab Spring, the Japan earthquake and tsunami, the death of Kim Jung Il and the U.S. government shutdown.
On Nov. 3, South Korea saw the joining of forces by two opposition presidential candidates: Kim Dae Jung of the National Congress for New Politics and Kim Jong Pil of the United Liberal Democrats (ULD).
President-elect Kim Dae Jung himself expressed shock after being briefed about the extent of the problems.
Korea's presidential campaign was formally under way, opposition politician Kim Dae Jung was already working the elctorate.
Kim Dae Jung's normally fine-tuned political judgment seems to have failed this year.
So American officials were vexed by the outcome of Kim Dae Jung's meetings last week with Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister.
South Korea President Kim Dae Jung is taking care with industrial restructuring rather than confronting powerful unions opposed to mass layoffs.
Mr Kim Dae Jung has promised a referendum before the end of 1999 on plans to introduce a new parliamentary system.
But when Korea's overextended economy collapsed, the new government of President Kim Dae Jung called for sweeping reforms--and targeted the chaebol for downsizing.
Kim Dae Jung has made it clear that he is not averse to an eventual U.S. withdrawal -- something Pyongyang has long demanded.
South Korean PM Kim Jong Pil (No. 35 last year) was crucial in getting President Kim Dae Jung, this year's co-No. 1, into office.
But should Kim Dae Jung emerge victorious, there may well be problems in policy formulation and implementation due to ideological differences within his alliance.
President Kim Dae Jung is attempting to reconcile the irreconcilable: to force banks and conglomerates to streamline their operations while keeping a lid on unemployment.
This week, South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung inaugurated work on rebuilding the 320km (200-mile) link, and the road that used to run alongside it.
The second controversial match took place about an hour later, pitting South Korea's Ha Jung-eun and Kim Min-jung against the Indonesians Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii.
Kim Dae Jung, who was elected president last month, said on January 5th that he would introduce laws making it easier for firms to sack workers.
The second match in question took place about an hour later, pitting South Korea's Ha Jung-eun and Kim Min-jung against the Indonesians Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii.
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Yet back in Seoul, South Korea's president, Kim Dae Jung, is still relying on his policy of trying to engage the North in some sort of dialogue.
South Korean businessmen agree that the idea is feasible, and President Kim Dae Jung has said that North Korea could be exporting products from Kaesong within a year.
But, before handing anything over, the South's president, Kim Dae Jung, would be wise to insist that any such good turn by his country gets another from North Korea.
Sohn Byung Doo, vice chairman of South Korea's powerful Federation of Korean Industries, was part of the delegation that accompanied President Kim Dae Jung to Pyongyang for the June summit.
While South Korean President Kim Dae Jung says 10 of the 25 largest chaebol have been restructured, the five largest, which still dominate the nation's economy, are not much changed.
His first major misstep was in January, when he learned that the wife of his ex-chief prosecutor, Kim Tae Jung, had accepted a fur coat and other clothes from an expensive boutique.
Japan and South Korea started out together on a new path of cooperation only recently after the late Prime Minister Obuchi Keizo and President Kim Dae Jung pledged to start a new era in relations.
Kim Dae Jung, a liberal former democracy activist, was once a constant target of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, the national security apparatus that conservative Kim Jong Pil formed during military strongman Park Chung Hee's rule.
Nor was Kim Dae Jung able to convince the PM to merge his United Liberal Democratic Party (ULDP) with the president's proposed new party, or even remain in their current alliance through the end of his five-year term.
The combination of the Asian financial crisis in the spring of 1997 and the election as president of Kim Dae Jung, the long-serving opposition leader, in December that year appeared to spell the end for the unreconstructed chaebol.
In the New York Times interview, South Korea's Kim Dae Jung reiterated that he would like relations to improve between North Korea and the United States, as well as between North Korea and the European Union and Japan.
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