The British, Czechs and Finns, who are all also looking at a design by America's Westinghouse (the Finns are examining a South Korean one, too), would not be keen to be captive customers, but they may choose EPRs anyway.

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He had little notion of his fatherland at the time because he had gone to Japanese schools all along, but I think that his awareness of being Korean, sprouted in his heart during his not-too-long life overseas, pushed away the music teacher's tenacious temptation.

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"Given that the global economy has not recovered fully, it would be too early to say the Korean economy has hit the bottom, " Suktae Oh of Standard Chartered.

BBC: S Korean growth picks up pace despite fragile outlook