Like almost everyone else in Korea, the two Kims are slashing employee numbers.

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We cross the street to Kim's (www.kims.com.sg), where Tony has pre-ordered the restaurant's famous specialty, my old nemesis chili crab.

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Eventually the Kims burned tires at night when the gas ran out.

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"It's time to end the politics of the three Kims, " said Lee, referring to the ex-president, plus the incumbent president and Kim Jong Pil, three veteran politicians with the same surname who have dominated South Korean politics since the early 1960s.

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Names of people, associations and corporations will be left alone for now, which is a good thing because most foreigners would be hard-pressed to associate Hyeondae with the venerable business giant that builds cars and ships. (The prospect of changing the passports of all those Kims isn't particularly inviting either.) The exemption isn't permanent, however.

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