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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 Kim Do-jin of the Industrial Bank of Korea(IBK). (Photo: IBK)The Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) logged the largest first half net profit since 2011 at 937.2 billion won, up 17.2 percent year-on-year, the bank announced on July 26. The net profit in the first half of 2011 amounted to 993.1 …
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Night view of High1 Resort Grand Hotel. (Photo: Kangwon Land)Kangwon Land has been implementing the Korea-High1-Integrated Tourism (K-HIT) Project to make a global multi-purpose resort. Such efforts have begun to pay off on the back of exploring…
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Acting President Nam Han-gyu of Kangwon Land. (Photos: Kangwon Land)Kangwon Land’s efforts to attract inbound tourists by making the most of the so-called K-culture have paid off. Kangwon Land said on April 1 that High1 Resort saw foreign visit…
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New Acting President Nam Han-gyu (left) of Kangwon Land poses with former acting president Choi Cheol-gyu as the former took office at Kangwon Land Hotel on March 4 on March 3.Nam Han-gyu, head of the Management Support Division at Kangwon …
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BTS performs a comeback concert to celebrate the release of “BTS Comeback Live: Arirang” at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul on Mar. 21. (Photo: Big Hit Music and Netflix)BTS made a long-awaited comeback by holding a concert in Seoul, Korea on Mar. 22.&…
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