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President Lee Hwan-joo of KB Kookmin Bank. (Photos: KB Kookmin Bank)KB Kookmin Bank claimed first place in terms of returns on non-principal-guaranteed products of defined contribution (DC) retirement pensions and individual retirement pensions (IRPs) among all banks that are retirement plan provide…
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President Lee Ho-sung of Hana Bank. (Photos: Hana Bank)Hana Bank announced on May 2 that it has signed a business agreement with the Association of Vietnamese Residents in Korea, at the Vietnamese Embassy in Jongno-gu, Seoul, on April 29. The deal mean Hana Bank will provide financial education…
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Jung Jin-wan, president of Woori Bank, shakes hands with Ahn Jung-hwan, head of K-water’s Ukraine Reconstruction Group at Woori Bank’s Poland Branch on May 7. (Photo: Woori Bank)Woori Bank announced on May 8 that it held a meeting with Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-water) at Woori Bank’s P…
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President Kang Tae-young of NongHyup Bank. (Photos: NongHyup Bank)NongHyup Bank announced on April 30 that it signed an export financing business agreement with the Korea Defense Guarantee Cooperative to support Korean defense companies’ overseas expansion. The signing event took place at the …
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President Park Chang-hoon of Shinhan Card. (Photos: Shinhan Card)Shinhan Card announced on April 21 that it has launched Shinhan Card Discount Plan and Shinhan Card Discount Plan+, which provide discounts of up to 20 percent according to the daily, monthly, and yearly spending schedules of customers…
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President Kim Sung-hwan of Korea Investment & Securities. (Photos: KIS)As Korea’s financial authorities speed up the introduction of the Investment Management Account (IMA) System, Korea Investment & Securities (KIS) is emerging as a potential candidate to start the IMA System. The IMA…
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Vice Chmn. Yoo Chang-soo of Eugene Investment (Photos: Eugene Investment)Eugene Investment said the company is operating 2025 Eugene Running Crew (ERC) Class event to promote healthy lives for investors.The class will be conducted on seven occasions at 7 p.m. every Thursday between April 10 and May …
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Chairman Jin Ok-dong delivers greetings at the 24th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders at Shinhan Financial Group’s headquarters in Seoul, on March 26. (Photos: Shinhan Financial Group)Shinhan Financial Group Chairman Jin Ok-dong said on March 26 that he will make 2025 a year of “value-up” an…
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On March 27, Hana Chairman Ham Young-joo visits a small restaurant to donate a high-efficiency air conditioner as part of his first act after starting his second term. (Photos: Hana Financial Group)Hana Financial Group announced in late March that its Chairman Ham Young-joo visited local small and m…
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Lee Chan-woo, chairman of NongHyup Financial Group. (Photos: NongHyup Financial Group)“Unless we innovate now, there is no bright future for NongHyup Financial Group,” said Lee Chan-woo, chairman, in a meeting with NongHyup subsidiary employees on March 27. On March 27, NongHyup Financial Gro…
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President Ryu Seok-hyun of the Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM) delivers a speech at a ceremony to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding at KIMM head office in Daejeon on April 14.The Korea Institute of Machinery & Mat…
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President Oh Sang-Rok of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST).Rhee Hyun-Ku, former Special Adviser to President for Science and Technology and former-President of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.Rhee, Hyun-Ku, former Spec…
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LG Uplus CEO Hong Bum-shik delivers a key-note speech at MWC 2026 at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, Spain, on March 2. (Photos: LG Uplus)LG Uplus presented a mid- and long-term vision in which the telecom service provider will become a global AI softwar…
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President Hong Beom-sik of LG Uplus. (Photos: LG Uplus)LG Uplus said on Oct. 23 that a paper on its in-house developed Generative AI technology “ixi-GEN” was recognized by EMNLP 2025, one of the world’s top natural language processing (NLP) confer…
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