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Chairman Sohn Tae-seung of Woori Financial Group. (Photo: WFG)Woori Bank recorded one of its best-ever operating profits last year, totaling 2.019 trillion won in net profit in 2018, up 33.5 percent YoY, the bank announced on Feb. 11.The bank said its 2.29 trillion won operating profit for 2006 rema…
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President Kim Do-jin of the Industrial Bank of Korea(IBK). (Photo: IBK)The Industrial Bank of Korea said its net profit amounted to 1.764,4 trillion won in 2018, up 17 percent YoY, the largest in its history. The bank said it and its affiliates’ outstanding loans with SMEs came to 151.6 trillion wo…
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Chairman Park Hyeon-joo of Mirae Asset Daewoo Group. (Photos: Mirae Asset Daewoo)A bird’s eye view of the TSX Broadway Project for a 46-storey multiplex building including a hotel, offices and shops on the site of a 106 -year old theater in Broadway in New York in which Mirae Asset Daewoo invests $…
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President Jeong Young-chae of NH Investment & Securities Co.“NongHyup seeks to expand mostly in Southeast Asia where it can help boost agriculture financing, investment banking, retail banking and microfinance. Our main Southeast Asian base will be Vietnam.”Vietnam’s population is “young” w…
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Chairman Lee Dong-geol of Korea Development Bank (KDB). (Photo:KDB)Korea Development Bank (KDB) has taken up an experiment to turn itself into an advance base for the 4th Industrial Revolution. How? It plans to funnel some 14.5 trillion won in loans and investments to business firms related to the n…
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Executive Vice Chairman and CEO Choi Hyun-man of Mirae Asset Daewoo Securities Co.Executive Vice Chairman and CEO Choi Hyun-man of Mirae Asset Daewoo Securities Co.Mirae Asset Daewoo invested 500 billion won in its Hong Kong affiliate to increase its capital with funds the company got from the sale …
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President Lee Dae-houn, 2nd left, of NH Bank, meets with Director Allen Awoo in charge of the Banking Sector of the Hong Kong Financial Authority.President Lee Dae-houn of NH Bank, left, shakes hands with President Steven Phillips of the Hong Investment Office in Hong Kong. (Photos: NH Bank)Presiden…
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Chairman Sohn Tae-seung of Woori Financial Group. (Photo: WFG)Chairman Sohn Tae-seung of Woori Financial Group issued a special order to Woori Bank to double the number of its SME customers this year. To go after the chairman’s special order, the bank boosted the number of Operational Headquarters …
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Chairman Cho Yong-byoung of Shinhan Financial Group.(Photos: Shinhan Financial Group) Jin Ok-dong, vice president of Shinhan Financial Holdings to take over as the CEO of Shinhan Bank. / Vice president Kim Byung-cheol of Shinhan Financial Investment has been promoted to president of the company…
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Chairman Yoon Jong-kyoo of KB Financial Group. (Photos: KBFG)Chairman Yoon Jong-kyoo of KB Financial Group said in his New Year’s address that 2019 should the year that the financial group consolidates its position as the top financial group in the country by widening the gap with the second leadin…
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Chairman Joo Young-jin, former chief of the National Assembly Budget Office, recently elected as chairman of the Korea Parliamentary Research Institute. (Photos : Korea Parliamentary Research Institute)Joo Young-jin is a recognized legislative b…
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Koo Ja-hong, the late first chairman of LG Group, died of 77 on Feb. 11.LS Nikko-Copper Chairman Koo Ja-hong, who shepherded the growth of LS Group, succumbed to a chronic disease he had been suffering from. He was 75. Chairman Koo, born in Jiny…
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By Park Jong-sun, a former professor with Jeonju University and ex-Korean consulate general in Qingtao, China.The global economy posted a high growth rate of 5.5 percent, as each country around the world employed expansionary fiscal and currency poli…
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Honorary Chairman Kim Jae-chul of Dongwon Group discusses on AI with KAIST President Lee Kwang-young at a talk show at KAIST’s main campus in Daejeon on April 2.Honorary Chairman Kim Jae-chul of Dongwon Group was once an old hand who had contributed…
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