However, Seoul remains fairly expensive, especially in traditionally desirable areas such as Apgujeong-dong, Daechi-dong and Gaepo-dong, all part of the Gangnam district, and newer areas such as Banpo-dong in the Seocho district.
The Koreans led 2-0 inside the first 10 minutes in the sodden conditions at Al-Gharafa Stadium as Ji Dong-won scored the first of his two goals with a header after keeper Paul Subrata failed to deal with Lee Chung-yong's cross.
Mr Johnson will face huge scrutiny in the run-up to next May's mayoral election - and journalists are salivating over a ding-dong contest between "Boris and Ken".
"Our introduction of high-speed 30 nanometer class NAND late last year served as an initial pathway for stimulating acceptance of the new high-performance toggle DDR technology, " said Dong-Soo Jun, executive vice president, Memory marketing, Samsung Electronics.
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The 21-year-old midfielder scored his third goal of the tournament following his double in Korea's opening 2-1 win over Bahrain, as Ji Dong-won collected a long ball and put the ball into the path of his teammate.
The company behind the development is Celtic Array, formed by Centrica - which owns British Gas - and Danish firm Dong Energy.
One of the companies behind some of the developments is Celtic Array, formed by Centrica - which owns British Gas - and Danish firm Dong Energy.
"We found that more and more elements were added to the show, and we felt that they might be walking away from the original intention -- grass-roots party for grass roots, " says Dong Xianhui, who runs Tencent's news page.
Last autumn's ding-dong over whether Turkish troops should go to Iraq has not helped.
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Skategate apart, Kim Dong-Sung's disqualification in the short track has been the worst of some puzzling decisions.
And late on United might have concede a penalty when Dong-Gook Lee went down following a John O'Shea tackle.
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Unable to meet supply deadlines, companies like Daehwa Fuel Pump Co. have suffered order cancellations, said its president, Yoo Dong-ok.
Earlier this month peer GlaxoSmithKline also made its own forays with the 10% acquisition of South Korean firm Dong-A Pharmaceuticals.
But after the break it was the Koreans who dominated as Lee Dong-Gook broke the deadlock in the 65th minute.
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Shopping-wise, the city more than competes with its markets, chic boutiques and flashy department stores that line the streets of Myeong-dong.
After the Scotland win, Prime Minister Lee Han-Dong urged the country's largest union not to stage any strike action during the finals.
Walk north to explore Samcheong-dong, the last refuge of hanok, wooden courtyard houses with tiled roofs built by the aristocracy before WWII.
The gold medals that Im Dong-Hyun has won so far are team golds, which South Korea claimed at Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008.
"Exports improved even though the yen was depreciating, suggesting that there hasn't been any major impact on growth yet, " said Kong Dong-Pak, an analyst at Hanwha Securities.
Or both players are involved in a ding-dong battle for supremacy -- the lead changing hands numerous times, leaving the crowd on the edge of their seats.
And although Im Dong-Hyun can barely read the big letters at the top of an optician's chart, he can hit that small, yellow circle time and time again.
But Im Dong-Hyun simply aims at the ill-defined yellow blob, shimmering and fuzzy at 70m, and somehow his poise, strength and technique combine to put the arrow right on target.
"WTO could be just the thing to put China's reforms on the fast-track, " says Dong Tao, senior regional economist at Credit Suisse First Boston.
Along with a handful of others in the show, they complicate Dong's neat professional-amateur divide, as does a 15th- to early-16th-century painting in the Lacma show by Du Jin.
"Productivity Growth of the Non-Tradable Sectors in China", by Dong He, Wenlang Zhang, Gaofeng Han and Tommy Wu.
It is home, after all, to Ding Dong Daddy, hero of a 1930s music-hall number still popular as the theme-song of an annual Dumas summer festival (though Dumas, Texas also claims him).
Yet, even for Israelis, the most troubling recent development in missile proliferation was the news on August 31st that North Korea had launched a three-stage missile, known as the Taepo Dong, which is apparently capable of reaching the western fringes of Alaska.
Last month, under government pressure, troubled SeoulBank lent yet more money to Dong Ah group, South Korea's tenth-biggest conglomerate, or chaebol, at rates hardly justified by the firm's tenuous condition.
That doesn't mean they're easy to spot, though: Chinese conceptualist Song Dong's contribution to Documenta is "The Doing Nothing Garden, " a 160-foot-long grassy knoll in Karlsaue Park whose innards are a mound of trash.
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