Word: tae
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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...
...local lookout point, the town's residents can peer across a stretch of river at the scrubby, brown hills of North Korea, knowing that hidden from view are bunkers, artillery and rockets that could turn their town into rubble in an hour. But for people like Kim In Tae, who sells women's wear in Ilsan's Lotte department store, the weaponry poses no more of a threat than a stand of pine trees. "Unless the U.S. attacks North Korea first, I'm not nervous," Kim says. "North Korea wants to be equal to the U.S. in the international community...
However, one must account for opportunity cost. Not every T rider has the facile assuredness of Jeffrey S. Bramson 08, who used his Tae Kwon Doe black belt skills to fend off a mugger on a New York City subway. A mugger attempted to steal a fellow riders purse at a stop, and Bramson tripped the thief, grabbed the purse and handed the purse back to the woman...
...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 and ethical leadership" at SK. That opportunity is likely to come again...
...show stars three young Korean celebrities—Kim Tae-hee, Kim Rae-won and Lee Chong-Jin—and contains numerous scenes in English. Filming of the show takes place more than a stone’s throw from the yard on a set in Los Angeles...