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...hard drives may be too complex and expensive for the masses. Most important, record companies must embrace the idea?and so far labels seem concerned that wireless downloading will spread music piracy. For example, earlier this year South Korean record labels and three cellular providers?KTF, LG Telecom and SK Telecom?attempted to reach an agreement over copyright protection for mobile music services, but the effort has been bogged down by infighting...
Both Akther and Maksuda work for suppliers of Wal-Mart. Sk Nazma, president of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity and a former factory worker, spoke after Akther and Maksuda. Nazma repeatedly called for “solidarity and support” for the 1.8 million workers that the organization represents...
...breakup of Hyundai Group and others and fostered an anti-chaebol backlash. Business life today in South Korea is marked by a steady stream of special investigations into chaebol-related bribery, stock manipulation, illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and fraud. Chey Tae Won, nephew of the founder of SK Group, was jailed last year for accounting and stock fraud. Chung Mong Hun, the favorite son of Hyundai's founder, killed himself last year after being accused of illegally passing money to North Korean dictator Kim Jong...
...October ? A Roh aide, Choi Do Sul, is arrested on charges of accepting $956,000 in bribes from SK Group, one of South Korea's biggest corporations, during last year's presidential election. Two other aides come under investigation for allegedly taking illegal campaign contributions. Roh's popularity rating drops below...
...current campaign-financing investigation is different from past scandals, however, because it is the first to take aim at a sitting President. Touched off this year when auditors looking into possible accounting fraud at SK's trading arm, SK Global, uncovered a multimillion-dollar political slush fund and bank accounts linked to both Roh's campaign and those of the opposition Grand National Party (GNP), the probe is unprecedented in scope and scale. Political pundits are comparing the dragnet to Italy's "Clean Hands" crackdown of the early 1990s, when reform-minded investigators sent hundreds of businessmen, bureaucrats and prominent...