Byong

Yet recently, Byong Man Ahn, the former minister of education in South Korea, warned Americans against praising the "educational zeal" of South Korean parents, saying that Korean schools had become too test-centered and too focused on rote learning, and that they "force the students to memorize so much that they experience pain rather than pleasure of acquiring knowledge through the learning process."

Leonie Haimson: Obama and Duncan on South Korea: What Can They Be Thinking? Leonie Haimson 2011

Yet recently, Byong Man Ahn, the former minister of education in South Korea, warned Americans against praising the "educational zeal" of South Korean parents, saying that Korean schools had become too test-centered and too focused on rote learning, and that they "force the students to memorize so much that they experience pain rather than pleasure of acquiring knowledge through the learning process."

Leonie Haimson: Obama and Duncan on South Korea: What Can They Be Thinking? Leonie Haimson 2011

Min Byong-duk, who has worked at Kookmin Bank since 1981, has been nominated as the new chief executive of the unit, from which KB derives more than 90% of its income.

KB Financial Names New President, Kookmin Bank CEO Nominee 2010

She and Paul were taking regular karate lessons twice a week from Byong Yu in Berkeley, and she used to enjoy chopping Mickey, who had a black belt in Judo.

Grace Slick The Biography Rowes, Barbara 1980

These precautions taken, and fifteen boats in the water ready for action, I cared very little, though the news reached me that Byong, the Sarebus chief, had hung a basket on a high tree which was to contain my head.

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

Sees Return to the Black SEOUL — South Korea's Kookmin Bank, the flagship unit of KB Financial Group Inc., expects to return to profit in the third quarter, Chief Executive Min Byong-deok said.

Kookmin 2010