Kim Kyong Lim, chief executive of Korea Exchange Bank, the main lender to Hyundai, argues that this should be no problem, since the bank's sub-standard loans stood at less than 18% of its portfolio at the end of June.

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About this, it should be stressed that this writer has no problem with drilling offshore, in Alaska, or anyone else in these fifty states.

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Judging by the madness at the event this week (see gallery below), it should be no problem.

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