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KOREAN COMPANIES REELING FROM AMBUSH ATTACKS IN IRAQ.
SEOUL, Dec 1 Asia Pulse - The shooting deaths of two Korean workers and the wounding of two others in Iraq Monday sent major Korean companies scrambling to take measures to strengthen the safety of their own workers in the war-ravaged country.
Samsung Electronics Co. (KSE:05930), the world's largest producer of memory chips, issued a safety advisory to units in the Middle East warning via its Dubai regional office against possible terrorist attacks near public facilities and U.SUMMARY. military bases, according to company sources.
LG Electronics Inc. (KSE:66570) also called on its staff in the United Arab Emirates and Turkey to refrain from making visits to public facilities and strengthened an emergency network among workers stationed there.
Two South Koreans were killed and two others wounded in an ambush in Iraq on Sunday local time, on their way to the northern city of Tikirit, the hometown of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, to build a power transmission tower.
The first South Korean casualties since the U.S.-led war in Iraq are all employees of a South Korean firm, Omu Electric Company, who have ...
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- News wire article from: YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea March 15, 2006 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News March 26, 2003 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: MEED Middle East Economic Digest Kemp, Peter August 16, 1996 700+ words
The Middle East is no mystery to Korea's contracting companies. For many, the Middle East was the foreign region of choice when they...most notably in southeast Asia. But the Middle East continues to compel, albeit for different...
- South Korea--spooked by the scale of its reliance on Middle East crude, the...
- Newspaper article from: Petroleum Intelligence Weekly September 23, 2002 700+ words
SOUTH KOREA -- Spooked by the scale of its reliance on Middle East crude, the energy ministry wants to shave the region's share of oil imports down to 65% within eight years, posing a challenge...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Barry Renfrew, Associated Press November 30, 1987 700+ words
...Today, a team of KAL and South Korean officials, including KAL chairman...Airline officials said the South Korean consul general to Iraq, Kang...workers returning from jobs in the Middle East. South Korean construction firms are heavily...
