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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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President Kim Tae-kyun of KEPCO E&C. (Photos: KEPCO E&C)KEPCO E&C struck a contract for the design of power supply equipment for the Yongin Datacenter and auxiliary equipment with KAAM Square Yongin datacenter PFV Co. on March 27, the com…
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President Jeong Chang-jin of Nuclear Fuel Co. (KNFC) poses for a photo with Sophie Lemaire, president of nuclear fuel at Westinghouse after they signed an extended export contract for cladding tubes, a core component of nuclear fuel, on April 2. …
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KEPCO President Kim Dong-cheol poses for a photo with PVN Chmn. Le Manh Hung after striking an MOU to cooperate in supply chains for the construction of the Ninh Thuan-2 nuclear power plant project with President Lee Jae-myung and General Secretary T…
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Chairman Park Gee-won of Doosan Enerbility. (Photos: Doosan Enerbility)Doosan Enerbility is accelerating efforts to expand its SMR production capacity to meet a surge in demand for SMRs abroad.Doosan Enerbility plans to launch a project to build a pl…
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