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A group of dignitaries clap hands at the opening of the IBK’s Changkong branch in Guro-dong, Seoul,Oct. 1, led by Chairman Choi Jong-gu of Financial Services Commission, 3rd L, Rep. Min Byung-doo , chairman of the National Assembly Political Committee, 3rd R, and President Kim Do-jin of the Industr…
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Chairman Shin Chang-jae.Kyobo Life Insurance has moved to reform its operation centered on financial planners. It aims at strengthening its overall marketing operation with CEO Shin Chang-jae directly getting reports from assistant managers operating at jobsites across the country.The biggest change…
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Chairman Kim Yong-duk of the Korea Non-Life Insurance Association. (Photo: KNIA)South Korea is the world’s seventh largest insurance market, worth an estimated $14 billion in non-life and $34 billion for life insurance, second only to China in Asia. If the FTA with is ratified, domestic insure…
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Chairman Park Hyeon-joo of Mirae Asset Daewoo Group. (Photo: Mirae Asset Daewoo Group)Domestic securities firms generated much more profits from their overseas operations in the first half of this year than when they first started two years ago. Overseas sales amounted to $66 million, up 17 times co…
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Chairman Kwon Yong-won of the Korea Financial Investment Association(KOFIA)Korea Financial Investment Association (Kofia) will make sure that stock transactions using company funds to purchase shares and dividends for individuals are more clearly defined. Kofia will take action from the first quarte…
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President Wi Sung-ho of Shinhan Bank. (Photos: Shinhan Bank)Shinhan Bank won the 2018 Fintech Grand Award in the Service Sector for providing tailor-made financial services by combining six apps, including Shinhan S Bank and Sunny Bank under its Shinhan Bank SOL platform, which already attracted 6.5…
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Chairman Cho Yong-byeong of Shinhan Financial Group. (Photos: SFG) Joseph Y. Bae, Co-president.(left) George R. Roberts, Chairman of KKR.Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts (KKR), a global PEF, will soon become a major shareholder of Shinhan Financial Group when it acquires around 3.55 percent of the…
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President Hur Yin of KB Kookmin Bank.KB Kookmin Bank has been focusing on supporting SMEs’ reformed growth and expanding its role to introduce funds to strengthen its role as a leading financial institution.The bank has been releasing funds based on the possibility of growth, not necessarily based …
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Chairman Yoon Jong-kyoo of KB Financial Group speaks at a ceremony for the opening of KB Kookmin Bank’s third branch in Cambodia early last year. (Photo: KB Financial Group)Chairman Yoon Jong-kyoo has been on a trip to Southeast Asia after stopovers in Beijing and Shanghai in a bid to speed up KB F…
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Chairman Kim Kwang-soo of NH Financial Group. (Photo: NHFG) NH Financial Group has been pushing globalization and digitalization as the two main points of its management strategy this year, with a special emphasis on globalization as the initial year for the push. The group targets generating 10 per…
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Vice Chairman & CEO Kim Jung-soo of Samyang Foods. (Photos: Samyang Foods)Samyang Foods, once a Korean ramen pioneer and legend, is making a splash in the global ramen market with Buldak Ramen, a spicy ramen brand. Buldak Ramen has establish…
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LG Chem CEO and Vice Chmn. Shin Hak-cheol and Sinopec Chmn. Hou Qijun applaud as both sides signed a deal to jointly develop core materials of the sodium-ion battery at LG Twin Tower in Yeouido, Seoul, Oct. 30. (Photo: LG Chem)LG Chem is joining forc…
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Chairman & CEO Choi Jin-shik of the Federation of Middle Market Enterprises of Korea (FOMEK), Minister for Trade Yeo Han-koo and Malaysian Amb. to Korea Dato' Mohd Zamruni bin Khalid pose with other attendees at speaking at “2025 MME Internation…
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Dignitaries, including Chmn. Shin Dong-bin of Lotte Group and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, applaud as they participated in a ceremony to dedicate a petrochemical plant, dubbed “Lotte Chemical New Ethylene (LINE),” in Cilegon on the island…
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