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Park Agenda Challenging Chaebols Rues Korea Slowing Not Missiles
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With North Korea escalating its threats to test a ballistic missile, South Korean President Park Geun Hye was conferring with Bill Gates on another pressing matter. Seated across from Microsoft Corp.’s billionaire co-founder on April 22 at a formal dining table in the Blue House, her official residence, Park picked the tech mogul’s brain about how to nurture entrepreneurs to keep the world’s 15th-largest economy humming.
“If there are more people like you, we will be able to create the world we dream of,” Park, 61, told the smiling Gates.