Several analysts said some Korean companies put pressure on analysts to produce positive ratings.
Arguing that South Korean accounting overstates some parts of debt ratios conveniently ignores that it understates others, especially secret debt-guarantees to subsidiaries.
When Avon, a cosmetics firm, noticed an influx of Koreans into Atlanta, Georgia, it hired some Korean women to sell its lipsticks and scents.
Korean kids interact with some TV quiz shows via cell phone, guessing at answers over the air.
The announcement on Monday led to some tense moments for some South Korean working.
The lawmaker said this explained why some South Korean politicians believed Seoul needed to play a greater role in the country's defense.
Japan also figures as a place where some North Korean citizens live.
The World Bank is making its loans to some South Korean companies conditional on their adoption of a set of international accounting standards.
Exposure to parents and other relatives who speak Korean has given Kim some knowledge of the language -- she can generally understand the subject matter of the conversation -- but she can't read it and doesn't enunciate well.
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Some estimates put Korean banks' non-performing loans as high as a staggering 12.7% of GDP.
Australian, Swiss, American, South Korean and French nationals, some of them humanitarian workers, were kidnapped, though all were soon released again.
Hyundai started out as a construction company in 1947, and founder Chung Ju-Yung and his extended family soon controlled a powerful South Korean business empire consisting of some 50 companies with interests in shipbuilding, automobiles, elevators and securities, among others.
South Korean companies cause particular worry: some may be unable or unwilling to complete planned investments.
South Korean households have available to them some 40 times the broadband capacity that is available to American households.
The rest are licensed and adapted for the local market from Chinese and Korean gaming companies--with some misses, such as introducing hard-core, martial arts features to Vietnam's less advanced gaming market.
The inflows help explain why officials in Seoul have suffered such agita over a strengthening Korean won, which is up some 5% relative to the U.S. dollar in recent months despite signs the government has attempted interventions to tamp it down.
Amazingly, living near New York and Philly, I have now found some of the best local Korean and Thai food.
The Pentagon views the land mines deployed in Korea as the major deterrent to a North Korean attack on South Korea, where some 37, 000 American soldiers are stationed.
Bush said shifting some troops from Europe and the Korean Peninsula is sufficient to fulfill U.S. military obligations.
Some, such as the Global Korean Network or the Tunisian Scientific Consortium, organise annual conferences to discuss issues of interest to the members and the country of origin.
Some Chinese restaurants pretend to be Korean.
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Some of the signs are even in Korean, which seems odd in rural Kentucky.
At this time last year, some analysts were predicting a turnaround for Korean chipmakers within six to 12 months.
Apple accused Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung of copying the design and some features of its iPhone and iPad in April 2011.
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Philip Cracknell of Standard Chartered, a British bank, says that Korean banks have been raising money abroad to repay some of their government-guaranteed borrowings.
Some limited English proficient (LEP) Korean American homeowners simply give up communicating with banks due to the language barrier, instead paying a broker to communicate with the bank on their behalf.
This month, Viet Hoa Bank has refused to repay some deposits placed with it by a South Korean bank.
But, apart from some potentially important economic agreements and some tearful reunions between families separated by the Korean war, Seoul and Washington have little to show for all of this.
The U.S. has pushed hard for Seoul to abolish the quota system, and some have argued that Swiri has proven that Korean product can compete at the same level as Hollywood blockbusters.
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