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...convicted, Chung could face jail time, but Korean tycoons have a history of survival. After going to prison for seven months for fraud in 2003, Chey Tae Won, chairman of oil company SK Corp., returned to his post, fighting off shareholder efforts to remove him. Still, Hahm Sung Deuk, a political economist at Korea University, says the arrest of such a prominent executive will act as a powerful warning to other businessmen: "The owners of companies will realize that this time is different." That may be bad news for Chung, but not for Korea's reputation...
...Mumbai Diamond Exchange, the somewhat glorified name for three office towers that have seen better days, is much more orderly than anything in Jaipur. On the ninth floor of the Panchratna tower, dealer Sunil Sethi of SK Exports flicks princess-cut and round-cut diamonds with tweezers without looking up. Every day he sees samples from about 35 brokers, who carry the stones in flat plastic boxes tucked into special cotton undervests...
...SK: I do. Not to the extent that she does. I?m very lucky that most of my time is absolutely my own. The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day. You can drift around and go and work at a coffee shop if you like. But occasionally, things get very hectic when I?m having to do promotions and do interviews and go traveling and that kind of thing. And I have two children, and another on the way. All boys...
...SK: The worst! I am the worst. That is truly all autobiographical. I can?t cook. I don?t have the right brain for it, somehow. I can?t walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous...
...SK: I actually went to learn to bake bread for the book. I was that devoted. I went to a friend who is truly a domestic goddess, and bakes her own bread every day, and practically has chickens running around the yard. She taught me from scratch. I have to say, it was very enjoyable. We had this lovely day, and we baked all of this bread. We made four loaves. But what really hit me was that then we sat down for tea, and we ate one of the loaves between us. It dawned on me-you make...