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Chairman Yoon Jong-kyu of KB Financial Group. (Photos: KB Financial Group)KB Financial Group joined the very small group of companies which have recorded 4 trillion won in net profit in 2021 by setting a new profit record. The financial group will also implement shareholder-friendly policies ba…
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Chairman Kim Jong-ho of Korea Technology Finance Corp. (KOTEC).In his New Year’s message, Chairman Kim Jong-ho of Korea Technology Finance Corp. (KOTEC) said that, “Last year was a year in which KOTEC proved its values to outside by easing difficulties related to a liquidity crisis, caused by the …
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Lee Dong-gull, chairman of KDB speaks at an online press conference for the New Year with regard to the European Commission’s disapproval of a merger between KSOE and DSME on Jan. 27. (Photo: KDB)“We are very sorry for the decision which the European Commission made based on national selfishness,…
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Chairman Kim Jung-tai of Hana Financial Group. (Photos: Hana Financial Group)In 2021, Hana Financial Group’s annual net profit surpassed 3 trillion won for the first time in the company’s history, as increased loans and interest rate hikes significantly drove the growth of interest income. Ha…
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Sohn Tae-seung, chairman of Woori Financial Group. (Photos: Woori Financial Group)For Woori Financial Group, 2021 was the best ever year in its history. It succeeded in its complete privatization and logged its highest business performance ever, with its annual net profit nearly doubling from 2020.O…
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Son Byung-hwan, chairman of NH NongHyup Financial Group, has time to check and discuss the status of overseas stores’ business operations in a New Year’s meeting with heads of overseas branches on Jan. 26. (Photo: NH NongHyup Financial Group) NH NongHyup Financial surpassed 2 trillion won in …
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Shinhan Bank President Jin Ok-dong delivers a big speech at the 2022 Management Strategy Meeting and the 2021 General Achievement Evaluation Conference on Jan. 21. (Photo: Shinhan Bank)Jin Ok-dong, president of Shinhan Bank, said at the 2022 Management Strategy Meeting on Jan. 21, “In order to be l…
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President Lee Jae-keun of KB Kookmin Bank. (Photo: KB Kookmin Bank)KB Kookmin Bank and SK Telecom signed an NUGU-based AI Banking Service Business Agreement in 2021. In early February of this year, they introduced “Conversation with Koli,” which is an AI-powered service of a KB banking app.Convers…
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President Park Sung-ho of Hana Bank. (Photos: Hana Bank)Hana Bank will ramp up investments in digital healthcare platforms. To that end, the bank announced on Feb. 10 that it signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Cenacle Soft leading the cloud electronic medical record (EMR) sect…
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Lee Won-duk to take office as new president of Woori BankLee Won-duk, senior vice president of Woori Financial Group, has been tapped as the next Woori Bank president. Analysts say that Lee is the right person to improve the vitality and management stability of Woori Bank, such as injecting fre…
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Acting Chairman Lim Chun-geon of Korea Polytechnics (KOPO). (Photo: KOPO)Korea Polytechnics (KOPO), Lotte Biologics and the Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) struck an MOU on cooperation between industry and campus, Lotte Biologics said on Oct.…
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President Lee Kwang-hyung of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). (Photos: KAIST)A Korean research team has developed a three-dimensional scanning camera, which would replace the plaster cast process for dental treatments. …
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(from left) KAIST President Lee Kwang-hyung, Minister Lee Young of the Korean Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), and Arpa Garay, Chief Commercial Officer of Moderna attend a ceremony in which KAIST and Moderna signed an MOU to foster physician-scie…
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President Lee Kwang-hyung of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). (Photos: KAIST)The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) is going to operate the “Manufacturing AI Metaverse Factory” experience booth at …
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