KB Kookmin Card announced on Aug. 26 that it will launch a social contribution education program to enhance and foster future generations’ financial and digital literacy.
This program is designed to allow teenagers to acquire essential financial knowledge and experience next-generation technologies, such as artificial intelligence and robots firsthand.
In particular, it will focus on providing educational opportunities by visiting youth facilities and regions with relatively insufficient educational infrastructure.
An image of KB Kookmin’s social contribution education program to enhance future generations’ financial literacy and digital literacy of future generations.
The KB Kookmin Card Joyful Financial Classroom program will be conducted a total of 150 times for approximately 3,000 students, including anyone affiliated with youth facilities nationwide and elementary, middle, and high school students.
Professional instructors visit the sites to deliver customized financial knowledge, - basic concepts like allowance and credit management for elementary students, and financial knowledge linked to real life for middle and high school students, while utilizing board games to increase engagement.
Meanwhile, KB Kookmin Card Joyful Digital Classroom targeting elementary school students in agricultural and fishing villages operates experience programs involving chatbot creation using generative AI and robot block coding.
In this process, 23 experienced women were trained and dispatched as professional instructors, aiming to simultaneously bridge educational gaps and promote women’s participation in the workforce.
With recent rapid changes in financial and technological environments, the importance of early education is being emphasized.
Accordingly, social contribution activities by the financial sector aimed at expanding practical, experiential educational infrastructure for youths in marginalized areas that lack sufficient social attention and support are receiving significant attention.
A KB Kookmin Card official said that financial and digital capabilities are essential foundational skills for youths to navigate future society.
The official added that the card company will continue to support future generations so that youths will be able to grow into healthy members of society by accessing diverse learning opportunities, regardless of their regions or educational environments.
Introduction of Corporate Public MyData
KB Kookmin Card announced on Aug. 25 that it will introduce the Ministry of the Interior and Safety’s Corporate Public MyData Service to its corporate card issuance process, becoming the first credit card company to do so in Korea.
Corporate Public MyData is a service that provides corporate-related information held by administrative and public institutions to necessary agencies in response to a company’s request for it.
With the introduction of this service, corporate customers can now submit documents required for corporate card issuance simply by requesting corporate authentication and administrative information without having to issue or submit separate paper certificates.
KB Kookmin Card utilizes a total of six types of information for corporate card issuance, including five types held by the National Tax Service and one type held by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups.
This process can verify information necessary for card issuance, such as corporate type and financial information.
Overhaul of KB Pay Financial & Credit Management Services
KB Kookmin Card completely overhauled KB Pay’s financial and credit management services and set out to strengthen its roles as a lifestyle financial platform.
Reflecting customer usage patterns, the information structure and user interface (UI/UX) of the Finance Tab have been improved, and services have been reorganized to allow users to access everything from financial products to automobiles, real estate, virtual assets, credit management and economic content all in one place.
According to KB Kookmin Card on Aug. 11, the main screen of the Finance Tab has been reorganized around services with high customer usage frequencies, making it easier and faster to access desired services.
KB Kookmin Card created financial products to allow users to quickly check personalized information, such as personalized preferential interest rates and credit limit increases, thereby boosting the convenience of product comparison and selection.
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