They were allegedly discussing plans to make illegal campaign contributions to candidates in South Korea's 1997 presidential election.
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Its telecom sales grew more than 50% last year and may expand even faster as Korea continues to make big investments in information technology.
For the next two decades Mexico will have more people of working age than dependents, a demographic profile that allowed Japan and Korea to make huge leaps forward in the decades after World War II.
But North Korea did possibly make one major misstep in arguing that it might undertake a pre-emptive nuclear strike.
India and South Korea are hoping to make their debuts in 2010 while Formula One's commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone would like to include Russia and the United States.
Finance Secretary John Swinney is to make his second trade visit to South Korea and Japan in just over a year to promote Scottish businesses.
On Monday, President Obama transmitted to Congress three free trade agreements that will make it easier for American companies to sell their products in South Korea, Colombia, and Panama, and provide a major boost to our exports.
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Hyundai Motor got caught overstating mileage numbers on a third of its cars it blames a mistake in testing procedures in Korea and is now trying to make good by reimbursing customers with gas debit cards.
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"In Korea, a lot of factors came together to make it a big thing, " professional gamer Greg Fields told CNN's Kristie Lu Stout.
Analysts cautioned that the move by North Korea appeared to be another tactic to exert pressure on South Korea to make concessions as Pyongyang blasts ongoing military drills in the South with the U.S. and issues threats of conflict.
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And last week China allowed a North Korean family that had taken shelter in the United Nations refugee agency's office in Beijing to leave the country and make their way to South Korea, instead of repatriating them as it normally does.
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It has to make it possible for people to use the internet which the government in North Korea has not yet done.
China "has called on North Korea to handle this matter in a speedy fashion and make all efforts to guarantee the legal rights of Chinese fishermen as well as their property and personal safety, " Mr. Hong said.
And we will work with those partners and others as we move forward to make clear how isolated, how in violations of norms this action by North Korea -- how isolated the regime is and how in violation of its obligations North Korea is.
Orascom launched a 3G phone network inside North Korea in 2008, but users can only use it to make phone calls.
Here is where there is some glimmer of potential for SoftBank to make a difference , by drawing on its experience with different services in Japan, Korea, and elsewhere in Asia .
Certainly by joining the now 23-country forum, North Korea is obliged to make public its key positions on defense, participate in high-level exchange visits related to security and give prior notice to other members of military drills.
In almost all its dealings with the outside world, North Korea continues to make demands for aid or assistance.
That would make Japan and South Korea potential targets along with U.S. bases in both countries but there are doubts about the missile's accuracy.
Others make their way through China, crossing into Russia or Mongolia in the hope of getting to South Korea.
And by containing the likes of Russia, North Korea and Pakistan, they will make it easier for Israel to contain Iran even in the face of US support for the mullahs.
Although they rarely make headlines, their leadership is abundantly apparent in international trade figures, not least in bilateral Japan-Korea trade.
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That gaping shortfall in material well-being, the optimists reckon, will eventually drive North Korea to make good with the international community and seek foreign investment.
His government has tightened accounting rules to make business more open, given minority shareholders and institutional investors more say in corporate affairs and opened South Korea's capital markets.
Military and White House officials have said the United States can defend against any such threat, and President Barack Obama said in an interview with ABC News this week that he does not think North Korea can make good on the threat.
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The idea has been in the works for some time, in the hope of encouraging the northern Mr Kim to make a promised but much delayed visit to South Korea.
Steel mills from Japan, Korea and Taiwan have reportedly begun looking to suppliers in the U.S. to make up for the disruption to supplies that could last for up to a year.
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"Foreign shareholders will continue to make sure the company is managed transparently, "says Jeffrey Jones, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea and a 20-year resident of Seoul.
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