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...talent. Economic reforms in places like South Korea and Taiwan in recent years have pushed Asian bosses to accept more outside influence by giving shareholders more rights and dismantling restrictions on foreign investment. Change will not come overnight. At the annual shareholders meeting of oil company SK Corp. in Seoul on March 11, some shareholders, led by Sovereign Asset Management, failed to oust chairman Chey Tae Won from the board, even though he was convicted in 2003 of accounting and securities fraud. Sovereign CEO James Fitter called the decision "a missed opportunity for shareholders to place the most competent...
...artificial plot with a few degrees of soul. Like Chow Yun-fat before he disappeared into Hollywood, Leung seems able to rise above his material and effortlessly make off with any film. It's no surprise that he plays such an accomplished thief in his latest project, the diverting Seoul Raiders...
...world. In Tokyo Raiders, Ma moved the standard Hong Kong action-comedy plot (cop, girl, gangsters, slow-motion spin kicks) to Japan. But Tokyo is so five minutes ago compared with red-hot Korea. Time for a remake. Leung and his fellow Tokyo cast members are sent packing to Seoul...
...they've invested heavily in the euro.) Leung nabs them, but on his way to claim his reward from a grateful U.S. government, he's waylaid and re-robbed by rival thief Owen Lee (Richie Jen). That sets off a cat-and-cat game between Leung and Jen in Seoul, with pillow-lipped, helium-voiced JJ (Shu Qi) as a third thief who fetchingly gets in everyone's way. As the story unfolds, the plot ties itself into some complicated knots, despite the best efforts of director Ma, who has the characters stop punching and kicking each other every five...
...Seoul Raiders is a Lunar New Year movie, the cinematic equivalent of a red packet of lai see money. But it's Leung's laid-back attitude that makes this trifle go down easier, as he walks around Seoul with a Cheshire cat's grin. After four years of surviving endless takes by meticulous Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai, who worked with him in the recent 2046, Leung deserves a New Year vacation away from his home city-and from self-serious filmmaking...