South Korea wants to increase its legal jurisdiction over the troops, who now are governed by U.S. law although they are on Korean soil.
Eric Harwit, a professor at the University of Hawaii, says they are contemplating South Korean- or Japanese-style protectionism: red tape and other non-tariff barriers.
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They may not be restructuring Indonesian debt or South Korean banks, but they are making lots of money all the same.
Since, for Korean banks, they are risk-free sovereign assets, the bonds are used to meet the bank's capital requirements and they are often held until maturity.
They are called striped beakfish, and they are native to warmer waters near Japan, China and the Korean Peninsula.
To ensure that they are not bulldozed in future, Sovereign and other investors are appealing to South Korean retail investors for help.
And when it comes to South Korea, we've got a trade agreement up right now, they are sending hundreds of thousands of South Korean cars into the United States.
And he said, well, you know, my biggest problem is, Korean parents are too demanding and they are insisting, for example, that I import, and I've had to import, thousands of foreign English teachers because they all feel that first graders should be learning English already.
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They are already reaching each other online and communicating with their Korean friends.
Nor are they necessarily comprehensive: Nachi fixed only the English, Chinese and Korean versions of Windows.
Relations between the two Koreas are tense - they remain technically at war following the 1950-53 Korean conflict, which ended in an armistice.
There will be many more bumps ahead: European, Chinese and Korean steelmakers are objecting to the joint venture, which they say will concentrate too much power in the hands of a single firm.
The South Korean constitution guarantees North Koreans citizenship after the government can establish that they are not spies.
The amounts they raise on global capital markets are pretty trivial: less than 2% of South Korean and Singaporean government debt is denominated in foreign currency, for example.
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The German and Korean makers that send cars here would argue that they shouldn't pay because most of their workers are not here but in their homelands.
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