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BOK opts "strategic patience", swan-song warning on housing
SEOUL, April 10 (AJP) — The Bank of Korea (BOK) unanimously held the base rate steady at 2.5 percent, opting for what it called “strategic patience” as the Black Swan shock from the Middle East conflict exerts both upward and downward pressure. “The freeze at 2.5 percent is not a simple suspension,” Governor Rhee Chang-yong said Friday after presiding over his final monetary p
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Seoul readying to redraw energy map with Hormuz substitutes in postwar order
SEOUL, April 10 (AJP) - It remains uncertain whether — or how — the war will wind down and the Strait of Hormuz will fully reopen after U.S.-Iran negotiations in Pakistan on Saturday. But one thing is already clear: access to the strategic waterway along Iran and Oman will not return to what it was. Against those odds — and the rising cost burden — Seoul is moving to rethink its
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A Korean love story, made in Nigeria: The new face of Korea–Africa relations
SEOUL, April 10 (AJP) - A poor but spirited girl, who by chance ends up attending a private high school for elite students, falls in love with a wealthy fellow student. It sounds like the plot of a Korean drama, but this is in fact the storyline of the Nigerian film My Sunshine – Korean Naija. Directed by Nigerian rapper and television producer by JJC Skillz, it was written by actress Kemi Ikus