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[Newsmaker] Key questions surround president’s eldest brother

Social affairsOct 29, 2012

Lee Sang-eun Lee Sang-eun, President Lee Myung-bak’s eldest brother, will be summoned by special investigators on Wednesday in a widening investigation into a property scandal surrounding the first ...
[Newsmaker] Berlusconi defiant after conviction

InternationalOct 28, 2012

After giving up prime ministerial ambitions Wednesday, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi responded to his conviction for tax fraud Friday with typical defiance, vowing to stay in politi...
[Newsmaker] President’s only son probed as suspect

Social affairsOct 24, 2012

President Lee Myung-bak’s only son will face questioning by a team of independent investigators Thursday as part of an escalating probe into his father’s now-scrapped retirement home plan. Lee Shi-h...
[Newsmaker] Yahoo’s latest CEO hopes to break cycle of failure

Social affairsOct 23, 2012

Marissa Mayer (Bloomberg) Marissa Mayer wants to revive the flagging fortunes of Yahoo Inc. by returning to its roots. The recently appointed CEO, a former Google executive who joined Yahoo in July,...
[Newsmaker] Climate fund boosts hopes for Songdo City

Foreign affairsOct 22, 2012

The Central Park in Incheon, near Songdo I-Tower, where the secretariat of the Green Climate Fund will be located ( Yonhap News) After years reeling from a lack of foreign investment and a moribund ...
[Newsmaker] Jeongsu Foundation’s legacy too big to ignore

PoliticsOct 21, 2012

Jeongsu Scholarship Foundation (The Korea Herald) It was perhaps what the ruling Saenuri Party’s presidential candidate Rep. Park Geun-hye has been dreading the most. Following her successful presid...
[Newsmaker] A fall from loyal aide to heaviest burden

PoliticsOct 18, 2012

Choi Phil-lip, head of Jeongsu Scholarship Foundation Choi Phil-lip, the 84-year-old chairman of the board for the Jeongsu Scholarship Foundation, has become seen as a public enemy. Son of a slain ...
[Newsmaker] Japan’s risk-taking mogul makes another gamble

Foreign affairsOct 16, 2012

Masayoshi Son Masayoshi Son, the founder and CEO of Japanese Internet and telecoms venture SoftBank Corp., is no stranger to playing the odds. The Japanese ethnic Korean has the distinction of losi...
[Newsmaker] Law professor key figure in candidate unification push

PoliticsOct 15, 2012

Progressive law professor Cho Kuk is emerging as an unlikely kingmaker mediating a tricky process to generate a united opposition candidacy. Cho is one of the country’s best known liberal academics ...
[Newsmaker] Can the ‘Boss’ pull together troubled Park campaign?

PoliticsOct 10, 2012

The “boss” is back. Former lawmaker Kim Moo-sung, 61, is the choice of Saenuri Party presidential candidate Rep. Park Geun-hye as she strives to defuse one of the biggest crises in her campaign. Dog...
[Newsmaker] Once success story, founder of Woongjin in grave crisis

IndustrySept 27, 2012

Everything Yoon Seok-keum touched seemed to turn to gold. He was a man who in just three decades, built a 6 trillion won ($5.3 billion) empire from the ground up, armed with nothing but a few good me...
[Newsmaker] Korean Methodist Church bans father-to-son succession

CultureSept 26, 2012

Christian churches in Korea have kept an unusual, anti-democratic and unfair system for decades ― the practice of hereditary succession or “seseup,” just like the father-to-son power transition that ...
[Newsmaker] Bomb thrower-state leader riles Israel, West yet again

Foreign affairsSept 25, 2012

No stranger to incendiary rhetoric, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad riled Israel and the West once again with his remarks on Monday that the world’s only Jewish-majority state had no roots in t...
[Newsmaker] Questions dog challenger to vulnerable president

PoliticsSept 23, 2012

Mitt Romney, the Republican challenger to President Barack Obama in November’s U.S. presidential election, tried to dampen speculation and political attacks over his finances on Friday with the relea...
[Newsmaker] Security dominates agenda of new Libyan premier

InternationalSept 13, 2012

After Libya’s 200-member General National Congress elected him prime minister Wednesday, the domestic security situation must be foremost on the mind of Mustafa Abu-Shakour. One of his last acts as ...