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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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President Sohn Tae-seung of Woori Bank. (Photo: Woori Bank)Woori Bank is on track to accomplish the seven management tasks laid out by Chairman Sohn Tae-seung when he took over the helm of the bank last December.The tasks included securing a foundation for stable profit, expansion of the global netw…
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Chairman Lee Dong-gull of Korea Development Bank. (Photo:KDB)Chairman Lee Dong-gull said Korea Development Bank(KDB) and all other state-run banks, commercial banks, foreign banks and financial organizations should participate in the inter-Korean economic projects to ease the risks. He made the stat…
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President Cho Wook-je of Yuhan Corp. speaks at a regular shareholders’ meeting at Yuhan headquarters in Dongjak-gu, Seoul, on March 29. (Photos: Yuhan Corp.)President Cho Wook-je of Yuhan Corp. said, “We’ve been progressing without interruption th…
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Chairman Lee Jang-han of Chong Kun Dang Holdings Corp. (Photos: Chong Kun Dang)Chong Kun Dang Kochon Foundation held a ceremony to award scholarship certificates for 2026 at Chong Kun Dang headquarters in Chungjeong-ro, Seoul, on March 3. The fo…
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Yuhan Corp.’s 100th anniversary slogan “100 Years of Trust, 100 Years of Promise” and emblem. (Photos: Yuhan Corp.)Yuhan revealed its slogan and emblem celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding as the pharmaceutical company held a ceremony…
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Chairman Lee Jang-han of Chong Kun Dang Holdings Corp. (Photos: Chong Kun Dang)Chong Kun Dang Group held a ceremony to kick off the 2026 business year at Chong Kun Dang headquarters in Chungjeongro, Seoul, on Jan. 5. In his New Year’s message, …
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