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Korea Report - August, 2012.

 

Topics.

 

©÷ President Lee made a surprise visit to Dokdo and urged Japan to sincerely address its atrocities.

©÷ Korea is likely to resume the import of Iranian oil from mid-Sept.

©÷ Saenuri Party members and supporters hoisted Park Geun-hye as their presidential candidate.

©÷ The Expo 2012 Yeosu ended its 93-day run on 12th, with visitors exceeding the 8 mil.

©÷ SKorea won 13 golds to rank fifth in the general standings in London Summer Olympic.

©÷ Lydia Ko, 15 years old, won US Women¡¯s Amateur championship and LPGA Canadian Women¡¯s Open in 3 weeks.

©÷ NK implements a new economic management system.

©÷ Moody¡¯s upgraded SKorea¡¯s sovereign credit rating one notch from A1 to Aa3.

©÷ Annual economic growth of 3% is no longer attainable for Korea.

©÷ Hanwha Group chairman Kim was sentenced to a 4-year prison term.

©÷ Apple scored a sweeping victory in patent war over Samsung in USA but lost in Korea and Japan.

©÷ The country's consumer price index rose 1.2% on-year in Aug, the slowest click in 12 years.

©÷ World order backlog has dropped below 100 mil CGT, for the first time since May 2005.

©÷ Korean yards posted increased sale but saw a slump in second quarter profits in 2Q.

©÷ Korean yards started to chase fundraiser by selling their own bonds.

©÷ KOEXIM launched a pilot scheme to loan towards used vessels for SME operators.

 

 

 

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