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A year on from KIC closure, two CEOs struggle to rebuild their businesses

Park Yong-man and Lee Joung-deok look back on the shock closure one year on

“Right now, I feel like I could just smash my head to death with a rock,” Park Yong-man, CEO of a business based at the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC), told NK News just a few hours after Seoul shut down the plant on the afternoon of February 10, 2016.

“I am exploding with anger… I have spent my most precious years – over a decade – establishing my company at the KIC, now it is all gone.”

The surprise move was aimed at pressuring North Korea, the South Korean government said, after the North conducted its fourth nuclear testand