Even so, firms such as Korean Air, which is thought to be one of the most vulnerable, earn most of their money in their home country.
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There, investors have snapped up both government bonds and those issued by government-backed outfits, such as the Korean Development Bank.
One approach would be to pour a lot more energy into cultivating resources such as North Korean defector Kim Kwang Jin, who was recently profiled in the Washington Post and on the Fox News Web site.
The B-2 is capable of carrying nuclear weapons, precision bombs that could take out specific targets such as North Korean government buildings, and massive conventional bombs designed to penetrate deep into the ground to destroy North Korean tunnels and dug-in military positions.
The firm has been losing large sums of money for the past two financial years as South Korean rivals such as Samsung have captured a greater market share.
Some, such as the Global Korean Network or the Tunisian Scientific Consortium, organise annual conferences to discuss issues of interest to the members and the country of origin.
Our key Asian and Pacific allies are investing in new technologies, playing roles in Afghanistan and Iraq, coordinating with us regarding global and regional threats, such as the North Korean nuclear program, and working with us to rationalize the US troop footprint in their countries to keep the alliances sustainable and capable well into the 21st century.
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Experts on North Korean proliferation, such as former defense intelligence analyst Bruce Bechtol, say that Iranians have been present at every previous major North Korean missile and nuclear test.
South Korean firms such as Hyundai compete directly with Japanese firms in key export markets.
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"In our judgment, the missiles are short-range guided missiles, not midrange missiles such as the Musudan, " South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said.
Other Asian currencies such as the Thai baht and the South Korean won are also undervalued.
The biggest of the South Korean shipping companies, such as Hyundai and Hanjin, both part of diversified chaebol, also face a credit crunch.
But he added that North Korea might mount a small-scale provocation such as its 2010 shelling of a South Korean island, an attack that killed four people.
In Washington, President Barack Obama's spokesman that "despite the harsh rhetoric we are hearing from Pyongyang, we are not seeing changes to the North Korean military posture, such as large-scale mobilisations and positioning of forces".
While Second Life was struggling to find a business model for success, companies such as Shanda, which were influenced by South Korean game publishers, built thriving virtual goods markets.
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Marketing broadband around topics vital to everyday Korean's lives - such as targeting ads at mothers and stressing the value of broadband to education - played a vital role in getting such impressive take-up, said team member Dr Jyoti Choudrie.
Due in large part to the popularity of new products such as CINEMA SCREEN 3D Smart TV in the Korean market and improvements in supply chain management, operating profit nearly doubled to 217 billion (USD 191.9 million) from the same period the previous year.
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Slick and superficial films such as this seem to represent the immediate future of Korean cinema.
The North Korean regime has treated such aid instead as part of a standing demand for an apology and reparations from the Japanese government for the atrocities committed between 1910 and 1945, when Korea was a Japanese colony.
With an eye on breaking out of this linguistic ghetto, technical standards were developed for Internationalised Domain Name (IDNs), allowing domain names to be written in non-Latin scripts such as Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic or Hangul, the Korean alphabet.
Such an expenditure cannot be justified as long as the North Korean military is using large quantities of fuel oil -- some of which has, in the past, reportedly been diverted from provided supplies -- to conduct massive, offensively oriented training exercises or other actions that threaten to put at risk American or allied forces in and the civilian population of South Korea.
While some argue that the effect of such actions will be to harm innocent North Korean civilians, as a practical matter, the only prospect those civilians have for real relief will come when the policies and practices of the present North Korean government are changed once and for all.
The rest are licensed and adapted for the local market from Chinese and Korean gaming companies--with some misses, such as introducing hard-core, martial arts features to Vietnam's less advanced gaming market.
Of course, any cheery predictions can quickly be shattered by unexpected events such as a major terrorist attack on the West, war on the Korean peninsula, or Iran testing a nuclear bomb.
"Intelligence personnel are closely monitoring North Korea's readiness with its short, middle and long range missiles such as Scud missile, Nodong missile and Musudan missile, " South Korean defence ministry official Kim Min-seok said.
Other projects from previous eras of cooperation such as reunions of families separated by war and tours to a scenic North Korean mountain stopped in recent years.
More than 120 South Korean firms employed about 53, 000 North Koreans to make products such as shoes and bags.
More than 120 South Korean firms employed about 53, 000 North Koreans to make basic products such as shoes and bags.
My colleague Andy Greenberg defeated such hearsay just as easily in 2009 when an account claimed to represent the government-run Korean Central News Agency.
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The term "swish of skirt" is often used in Korean to describe women acting in a way seen as overly aggressive, such as housewives trying to micromanage all aspects of their children's educations.
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