31.   Both are Korean companies, and LG is a Spectrian customer.

32.   Both Korean companies are insolvent.

33.   But a Mexican factory took the business away with a lower bid, prompting the Korean company to shut down operations in Jamaica and send its employees home.

34.   But both Korean companies want to be closer to growing U.S. markets.

35.   But it was delayed after the government asked Samsung and other Korean companies to borrow less from overseas capital markets when they make major overseas investments.

36.   But news reports here say, and a Finance Ministry official conceded, that this figure does not include the debts held by overseas subsidiaries of Korean companies.

37.   But so would Korean depositors and solvent Korean companies.

38.   Casey recently bought bonds of a Korean company, his first purchase of Korean debt.

39.   Concern that Korean companies and the government will default on loans recently darkened the outlook for Japan, a major lender to Korea.

40.   Domestic interest rates costs jumped amid mounting concern overseas borrowing costs will soar for debt-ridden Korean companies.