31.   Four department store executives were arrested Saturday on negligence charges.

32.   Four store executives were arrested for allegedly bribing city officials to illegally change the design and expand shopping space.

33.   Four Sampoong executives were arrested last week for bribing city officials.

34.   Four store executives have been arrested.

35.   In early February, seven former Daewoo executives were arrested for fraud, embezzlement and other alleged financial misdeeds.

36.   In separate cases involving payoffs to racketeers, police have arrested executives of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and Hitachi Ltd.

37.   Meanwhile, Nomura has been set back by a major scandal in which several senior executives have been arrested on suspicion of doing business with a corporate extortionist.

38.   Prosecutors said Thursday they have arrested four executives of a major commercial bank on suspicion they extended illegal loans to corporate racketeers.

39.   Several brokerage executives were arrested last year in a crackdown on embezzlement.

40.   South Korean prosecutors Thursday arrested an executive from the Hyundai conglomerate suspected of heading a major stock manipulation scheme.