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If the upturn of oil prices eases, inflation may slow toward the end of this year but as oil and raw material costs are rising beyond our expectations, there is increasingly high uncertainty surrounding the movement of inflation
South Korean interest rate unchanged Jun 12, 2008

Lee Seong-jae (Hangul: 이성재; born August 23, 1970, in Seoul) is a South Korean actor.

Lee Seong-jae had gone to Dongguk University, whose major is performing arts. He rose to prominence in 1999 in Kim Sang-Jin's comedy film Attack the Gas Station, and in Bong Joon-ho's 2000 film Barking Dogs Never Bite, where he plays a dog-hating lecturer who wants to be a professor. In 2002 he portrayed the villain in Public Enemy.

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