Hyundai's net profit fell 5.5% in its fourth quarter from a year earlier as a strong South Korean won dented overseas earnings.

WSJ: What's News

Over the past decade, most South Korean companies have focused on organic growth following disappointing overseas buyouts in the 1990s.

WSJ: Korea Is Primed for M&A Deals

Hyundai aims to sell more premium vehicles overseas to offset a rising won and sluggish demand at home for the South Korean auto maker.

WSJ: What's News

Chinese stock markets managed to eke out gains on companies' overseas investments and Beijing's measures to support the ailing export sector, and South Korean equities gained on favorable industrial data.

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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.

NPR: Literature and Lullabies from the 'Axis of Evil'

The first Korean man to join the tour in 2000 was Choi Kyung-ju, known overseas as K.J.

WSJ: The Swing That Started Korea's Surge

Other deals going ahead include General Motors' purchase of Korean auto maker Daewoo in which GM would acquire all 30 of Daewoo's overseas units.

BBC: Attacks scuttle business deals

Because 85% of his sales now come from overseas, Nam's plan is to make his headquarters look more like that of a big multinational than a Korean chaebol.

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