61.   Kang is expected to promote financial reforms initiated by Kim to reduce bureaucratic red tape and boost the competitiveness of Korean companies.

62.   Just as fellow Korean company Hyundai has bought technology from Mitsubishi, Kia has relied, to a more limited degree, on Mazda technology.

63.   Kia, a Korean company, has slowly been making its way to the East Coast and arrived in New England this fall.

64.   Kim has also agreed to allow Korean companies to lay off workers, ending one of the practices that has kept companies bloated.

65.   Korea Electric Power Corp., which has the largest foreign debt of any Korean company, led the gain.

66.   Korean banks say they may try other means of raising their BIS ratios such as selling bonds to the government or cutting back loans to Korean companies.

67.   Korean companies are scrambling to raise cash as the slowest economic growth in four years squeezes their cash flows.

68.   Korean companies will probably take an even bigger hit.

69.   Korean companies are having so much trouble paying for imported copper that the government said last week it would consider buying copper for them.

70.   Korean companies have already begun to cut back.