In order to focus on their cellular-phone business, SK Telecom folded their NetsGo internet service provider and Lycos Korea into their subsidiary SK Communications in November 2002.

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Police alleged that SK co-ordinated an attack on Spamhaus in protest over its decision to add servers maintained by Cyberbunker to a spam blacklist.

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So, this week, there was the billionaire heir of the giant SK conglomerate, Chey Tae-won, back in the dock and, indeed, quickly in jail on an embezzlement finding.

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Chey Tae-won, the chairman of SK Group, was indicted in January over the disappearance of 99 billion won from company coffers, as part of a scheme allegedly planned by his brother to cover futures-trading losses.

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The 23-year-old joined the Lanarkshire side on loan from SK Sigma Olomouc in August 2007, then extended the deal until the end of this season.

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SK's chairman, Chey Tae-won, had been convicted for his part in an accounting fraud.

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