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...architect of Hyundai's rise is Chung, who was named chairman in 1998. Although his father Chung Ju Yung founded Hyundai Motor in 1967, it was clear that the son would not get a free ride. Shortly before his appointment, the Korean economy was slammed by the 1997 Asian financial crisis and Hyundai was forced to lay off 25% of its staff. Complicating matters, Hyundai agreed in 1998 to acquire South Korean rival Kia Motors, which had to be assimilated. Chung had little experience with the automotive industry. He had spent most of his career managing a smorgasbord of affiliates...
...architect of Hyundai's rise is Chung, who was named chairman in 1998. Although his father, Chung Ju Yung, founded Hyundai Motor in 1967, it was clear the son would not get a free ride. Shortly before his appointment, the Korean economy had been slammed by the 1997 Asian financial crisis and Hyundai was forced to lay off 25% of its staff. Complicating matters, Hyundai agreed in 1998 to acquire South Korean rival Kia Motors, which had to be assimilated. Chung had little experience with the automotive industry?he had spent most of his career managing a smorgasbord of affiliates...
...gave him an understanding of the suffering, pain, brutality and injustice of war. And now Kerry may be more careful and reluctant to declare war on countries that don't fit into the American view of the world. That would be a blessing for us all! Kim Sae Yung Seoul...
...family in a few scribbled lines, gave encouragement to a colleague and, in a note to his employees, wrote: "A foolish man does a foolish thing.") But few men in South Korea could have had more burdens to bear. Chung, one of eight sons of the late Chung Ju Yung, pioneering chaebolist and founder of the Hyundai group, had been demoted in the Hyundai empire from group chairman to overseer of Hyundai Asan, the subsidiary that specializes in tourism and industrial investments in North Korea. He was on trial for his still-murky role in the clandestine transfer...
...which owns Mak's management company, Mellow Studio; Alex Chan, the president of Mak's record label, Universal Music Hong Kong; three staff members of local broadcaster TVB; and Albert Yeung, the founder of Emperor Entertainment Group. Several of Yeung's stars, including Eason Chan, Nicholas Tse and Joey Yung, were spotted at ICAC offices and were thought to be among the 29 other show-biz folk brought in for questioning. It appears that record companies may have paid off TVB personnel in exchange for gaining top placement for particular artists on the network's weekly music-chart show, Jade...