Most of the losses - 558 - are going across Rok's maintenance and improvements business.
And now, in contrast to 1950, the ROK is well able to defend itself.
In the early years the ROK would not have survived without American military support.
And the ROK lags behind the North in quantity only as a matter of choice.
Mike Jervis of PricewaterhouseCoopers said more than 100 firms had shown interest in buying parts of Rok.
But Rok Building subcontracted the jobs to another building contractor - AJ Building.
Rockwell Automation (ROK) manufactures tools and controls used to increase efficiency at factories.
Washington has provided a peacetime military shield for the ROK for 58 years.
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And today, with the U.S. promising to defend the South, war between the DPRK and ROK would mean war for America.
Both Rok plc and Rok Building Limited have been placed in administration.
Japan should boost its own deterrent capabilities, instead of relying on Washington, and cooperate more with the ROK to promote regional security.
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Rok provides building services for councils, schools, housing associations and businesses.
Worse yet, the amendment also calls for the initiation of U.S.-ROK discussions leading to phased annual reductions in the number of U.S. Army personnel stationed there.
David MacDonald of Rok Civil Engineering, who will be carrying out the Streetscape work, acknowledged the timing of the closure could cause difficulties for local shops.
And Beijing has done nothing practical to back up its boilerplate admonition for North Korea to improve relations with the U.S. and ROK, repeated last week.
FORBES: Turn The Problem Of North Korea Over To Its Neighbors
The new changes were set in a plan called Strategic Alliance 2015, established at a meeting of U.S. and ROK foreign and defense ministers last July.
The High Court in London was told that Zurich instructed a firm called Rok Building Ltd to carry out the repairs, and paid the company for the work.
And the ROK is well able to defend itself, in contrast to 1950, when Washington had refused to arm its ally after Seoul threatened to invade the north.
FORBES: Turn The Problem Of North Korea Over To Its Neighbors
Furthermore, North Korea's announcement of a major new ballistic missile defense initiative, training runs by B52 and B2 bombers, and an updated US-ROK Combined Counter-Provocation Plan, which has nuclear implications, are worth keeping an eye on.
We also need to work with regional partners to build a multi-layered network that is open, comprehensive and building on international rules utilizing such frameworks as trilateral dialogues among Japan-U.S.-ROK and Japan-U.S.-Australia, East Asia Summit and APEC.
Yet when North Korea's Jo Myong Rok turned up at the White House for a 45 minute chat with Bill Clinton on October 10th, looking stern and in his vice-marshal's full military regalia, American officials were delighted.
But dismissing the case, Judge Andrew Keyser QC the company had been the third and final link in a contractual chain and it would be wrong to make the householders bear the risk of the money paid by Zurich "disappearing in Rok's hands".
And today I indicated to President Lee that it is time that our United States Trade Representative work very closely with his counterpart from the ROK to make sure that we set a path, a road, so that I can present this FTA to Congress.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama & South Korean President Lee at G20 Summit
The international situation in East Asia is exceedingly fluid at the moment, raising profound questions about the effect of a U.S. withdrawal from the ROK on others in the region and the confidence with which one can count on external factors to help maintain stability in Korea.
On January 12, 1950, then-Secretary of State Dean Acheson made a tragic mistake: When publicly describing those areas of vital interest to the United States, he omitted the Republic of Korea (ROK), suggesting that it was not within the "defensive perimeter" for which the United States would fight.
As a result, it would be a serious mistake to conclude that the threat North Korea has long posed to the ROK is receding simply as a function of the trend in other parts of the communist world, a trend often described as the end of the Cold War.
And as you know, considering the evolving security environment of the region, as well as the world, and also in order to strengthen ROK-U.S. alliance, we made a formal request to President Obama and to the U.S. administration for the adjustment of the transfer of the timing of the wartime operational control.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama & South Korean President Lee at G20 Summit
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