Word: jubail
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...rich sheikdoms. In 1973 South Korea earned $24 million in the Middle East. The score a mere two years later: $770 million. So far this year South Korean entrepreneurs have pocketed contracts worth $1.5 billion, including one for the construction of a $944 million industrial harbor at Jubail in Saudi Arabia...
...million. But Americans and Europeans are better at providing technical services, admits Seoul Businessman Chongwhan Choi, and on the whole, he says, he and his compatriots are content "doing jobs that require a lot of muscle power but little brain." To meet the construction deadline for the Jubail harbor, for example, Hyundai Co. is flying in 300 workers a week for an eventual total of 3,300, and Korean Air Lines has begun twice-weekly flights direct from Seoul to Bahrain. Business leaders expect the volume of contracts for this year to top $2 billion and to reach $10 billion...