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Chairman Euh Yoon-dae of KB Financial Group.Chairman Euh Yoon-dae of KB Financial Group is getting a plan ready to take over a foreign bank or buy stakes when banks impacted by the European debt crisis this year are up for sale. The chairman, who is a former chancellor of Korea University, told…
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Chairman Han Dong-woo of Shinhan Financial Group.Chairman Han Dong-woo of Shinhan Financial Group said it is not a sure thing whether or not the group can sustain its pace of recent growth this year, even with the stellar results of last year."If our export industries falter due to a global slowdown…
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President Lee Soon-woo of Woori Bank.To advance the mid- to long-term vision to be among the global top 50 and the Asian top 10 players, Woori Financial Group (WFG) set its 2012 management target on building up business infra for the maximization of the Group's value. Key management strategies…
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President Cho Jun-hee of the Industrial Bank of Korea."We are ready to take about 400 billion won in losses by expanding our loans to SMEs this year," President Cho Jun-hee of the Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) said in his New Year media briefing on Jan. 2.Cho said the bank's net profit projection f…
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Chairman and President Kim Yong-hwan of the Export-Import Bank of Korea.The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Korea Eximbank) announced that it has successfully issued global bonds totaling $2.25 billion to investors worldwide on the dawn of Jan. 5. The offering is the largest single Korean global bond o…
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President Chang Young-chul of Korea Asset Management Corp.President Chang Young-chul of Korea Asset Management Corp. (KAMCO) said this is the 50th year for KAMCO, a company devoted to the stabilization of the financial market since its launching a half century ago."In order to be ready for the compa…
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Chairman Kang Man-soo of KDB Financial Group.Chairman Kang Man-soo of KDB Financial Group said recently that the financial group will sell 10 percent of the 100 percent stake owned by the government and the Korea Investment Corp. (KIC) through the stock market this year.KDB Financial's plan has alre…
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Minister of Knowledge Economy Hong Suk-woo attends a meeting with the nation's top 30 business group leaders at the Seoul Renaissance Hotel on Jan. 13.The nation's top 30 conglomerates have decided to set aside a combined 151.4 trillion won in investments and create 123,000 new jobs during this year…
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President of Song Sang-keun of the Busan Port Authority (BPA). (Photos: BPA)The Busan Port Authority (BPA) participated in 2026 IAPH-KMI Forum in Tokyo on July 27 and presented its strategies to make Busan Port a digitalized smart port. The foru…
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A poster to publicize a national briefing session on the three mega projects “for Korea’s Great Leap Forward” at the State Guest House of the Cheong Wa Dae on June 29. (Photo on the courtesy of the Office of the President)The Korean government wil…
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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance Koo Yun-cheol presides over a related ministers’ taskforce meeting on managing of general prices at the Seoul Government Complex on July 24 in which he said Korea will likely see its national…
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Min Hyung-bae, mayor of Jeonnam-Gwangju Special Metropolitan City, takes the oath of office at Main Assembly Hall of the City Council in Muan on July 1. (Photo: Jeonnam-Gwangju Special Metropolitan City)Min Hyung-bae, went down in history as the firs…
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