Most recently, Imu said, he has been working for Awami League lawmaker Talukder Touhid Jang Murad.
The National Security Council is headed by Kim Jang-soo, a hawkish former defense minister.
LG's initiative, too, was designed to eliminate the need for wonky glasses, Jang said.
They include Frederic Fonteyne's Une Liason Pornographique, and Jang Sun Woo's Lies, about a sado-masochistic affair.
The Jang Group, Pakistan's largest newspaper empire, is being probed by the tax authorities.
It was started in January 1997 by the energetic Ha Sung Jang, a former finance professor at Korea University.
The State Security Ministry, long overseen to some degree by Jang, also has gained in status.
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The state should have dealt with them more radically when Daewoo collapsed, says Mr Jang.
It is guys like Jang in Korea that are doing the yeoman service.
Bumps like the Hwang Jang Yop affair may cause diplomatic difficulties but will not stem the investment flow.
Steve Jang, CEO, Schematic Labs (a stealth-mode startup in the mobile entertainment space), was one of the tarp surfers.
Park is considered an ally of Jang Song Taek, Kim Jong Il's brother-in-law.
The government bears much of the blame for the mess, says Jang Hasung, professor of finance at Korea University.
More substantively, Jang is thought to have been long interested in economic reform.
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He worked for Geo News television, Jang Online News and the daily paper News International in both English and Urdu.
In June Mr Jang was promoted to the post of vice-chairman of the National Defence Commission, the country's decision-making body.
The group publishes the Jang, in Urdu, and the News, in English.
Mr Jang is a crusader for better corporate governance at the chaebol.
But by attacking in a nontraditional way, the team of Billy Lau, Yeongjin Jang and Chengyu Song say, those defenses can be bypassed.
It's commonly believed that Beijing feels it is safer to have North Korea on its border than U.S. ally South Korea, Jang said.
"All our TV guys and our mobile-phone guys, we try to solve that problem -- to force people to wear glasses, " Jang said.
An early indicator of Mr. Jang's influence could be whether, or how fast, North Korea resumes talks over that and other ongoing projects.
Critical appointments include the installment of Vice Marshal Jang Song-u, a Kim relative by marriage, to command of all forces around the capital of Pyongyang.
Earlier this month Jang's 3, 000 employees were told the group's bank accounts had been frozen by the tax authorities, so salaries could not be paid.
The appointment provoked the ire of shareholder activists like Ha Sung Jang, who spoke passionately at the Samsung Electronics' general shareholders' meeting in Seoul on Mar. 9.
The DPRK's official currency is the North Korean won, but Jang said everything in North Korea was pegged on the U.S. dollar, including the black market economy.
In April, he named his son, Kim Jong-un, and brother-in-law, Jang Song Thaek, to the country's powerful National Defense Commission, suggesting that his son may be his heir.
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