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South Korea’s Family-Run Conglomerates Are Under Pressure

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Special prosecutor Park Young-soo is going after South Korea’s most powerful business leaders and politicians, but he’s faced tougher opponents before.

In 2015, Park was slashed in the neck with a box cutter by a man he defeated years earlier. He suffered a 6-inch gash and had to be stitched up twice.