In its seventh rotation since 2009, government-sponsored Concept Korea has acted as a Korean design incubator of sorts, helping to propel its hand-selected designers to more prominent global standing, higher sales, and wider industry recognition.
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Though Mr. Yoon, 42, is often identified as a Korean-American chef along with peers David Chang and Roy Choi, he'll be cooking Chinese and Southeast Asian food, heavy on what he calls his "pet ingredient": Sichuan peppercorns.
With Eugene Levy as Max Yasgur, and Liev Schreiber, in a blond wig and a thin cotton dress, as a transvestite Korean War vet who offers his services as a security enforcer.
Now practised as a performing art throughout Korea, it can be seen as a representative Korean folk art.
Suffice it to say that Isabelle Huppert is involved throughout, as a French woman visiting a somnolent Korean seaside resort.
Hyundai's net profit fell 5.5% in its fourth quarter from a year earlier as a strong South Korean won dented overseas earnings.
Another problem is that the foreign companies can't match the after-sales service offered by the local giants, as agreed by a Korean couple I spoke to at a Starbucks in Hong Kong.
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He claims that he later enlisted as a sergeant in the South Korean army and received a serial number.
Visitors on a tour bus from the South Korean side peer up at a North Korean building known as Panmungak.
Before he became an astronaut, Armstrong served in the Navy as a pilot during the Korean War.
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This geoeconomic aspect is too often ignored, as when the North Korean nuclear issue is treated purely as a security issue.
Foreigners have stayed away, says Sohn, because they view it as a proxy for the depresssed Korean economy.
Japan also figures as a place where some North Korean citizens live.
In the Korean War as a young infantry officer, I nearly froze to death with my company holding our final protective line of fire.
He won two Purple Hearts as a combat Marine in the Korean and Vietnam wars, after which he tacked on 23 more years in the Marine Reserve.
Still, the United States and South Korea have raised their defense postures, as has Japan, which deployed PAC-3 missile interceptors in key locations around Tokyo on Tuesday as a precaution against possible North Korean ballistic missile tests.
The Korea Times story painted a scenario where Samsung was gradually tailing off its supply of LCDs to Apple over the course of this year, quoting a source as saying the Korean company had shipped 15 million displays to Apple in the first six months of 2012, but less than 3 million during the third quarter, which ended in September.
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At one time he took a Japanese name, Yasumoto Masayoshi, but reverted to his Korean name when he naturalized as a Japanese citizen.
The White House could use its South Korean trade pact as a late bargaining chip for fast-track renewal, though it might be a low-value one.
The Pentagon views the land mines deployed in Korea as the major deterrent to a North Korean attack on South Korea, where some 37, 000 American soldiers are stationed.
There's mushroom wine and chestnut porridge, according to summit officials, as well as kimchi, which is a spicy Korean vegetable dish that's pretty full of garlic, and the leaders are all going to be gathering for a photo, as well.
Arsenal continued to press forward looking for a way back into the match, but once again they were caught on the break as this time Korean Ji-Sung Park burst through a huge gap in the home defence to slide home the decisive third goal early in the second half.
Examining the screenshots, we see that the OS lists South Korean carrier SK Telecom as a potential mobile provider.
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Besides the Israeli shekel, the other main exception is the South Korean won which, as a result of currency appreciation, is now 8% overvalued against the dollar.
So it came as a big surprise, and the South Korean Defense Ministry today proposed to the ruling party in South Korea that it bring home about a third of its troops when they decide to extend the deployment for next year.
The South Korean rescue is a qualitative as well as quantitative advance, if that is the word, on Mexico.
There are concerns that with Japan and South Korea competing in similar markets, South Korean goods may lose out as a result of fluctuations in the currency.
As a vital ally to South Korea since the Korean war in the 1950s, the United States has pledged military backing to Seoul in the event of an attack by North Korea.
There have been fears that because Japan and South Korea compete in similar markets, Korean goods may lose out as a result of the currency moves and that such developments may also hurt South Korea's overall growth.
Born into World War II, as a young boy in the middle of the Korean War, having to flee the fighting with his family -- just as his home country has risen, so he has risen to leadership on the world stage.
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