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			|  | Chairman Cho Yong-byoung of Shinhan Financial Group delivers his speech at a meeting.
When Cho Yong-byoung took over as chairman of Shinhan Financial Group recently, he laid out his ¡°2020 vision¡± to lead the financial group to be No. 1 in Asia within three years.
Shinhan is not the only financia¡¦	
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			Chairman Yoon Jong-kyoo of the KB Financial Group. (Photos:KFG)
KB Financial Group will take up the Code 2017 Project as its strategic task for this year, Chairman Yoon Jong-kyoo declared in his New Year¡¯s speech. The project is designed to push the digitalization of operations of the group and it¡¦			 |  
		
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Chairman Kim Jung-tai of Hana Financial Group said in his New Year's speech the key word that is most often repeated inside the group has been ¡°digital,¡± not ¡°deposits,¡± ¡°interest rates¡± or ¡°services,¡± demonstrating that the age has arrived for financial business firms to compete with non-¡¦			 |  
		
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			NH Financial Group launched the All One Bank, a mobile banking service, on Aug. 8 last year led by Chairman Kim Yong-hwan, 4th left, in a ceremony held at its head office in Seoul.(Photo: NH Financial Group)
NH Financial Group has decided to push the digital finance as its growth engine for this ye¡¦			 |  
		
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			President Lee Kwang-koo of Woori Bank.(Photo: Woori Bank)
Woori Bank was the first financial institution in the country to introduce a mobile banking service that allowed users to apply for and receive loans completely through an app. The loans offered through Woori¡¯s WiBee Bank app had so mid-ran¡¦			 |  
		
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			Chairman Kim Do-jin of Industrial ¡®Bank of Korea(IBK) speaks during a meeting of all branch managers and affiliates of IBK totaling around 1,000 gathered on Feb. 10 at the bank¡¯s head office in downtown Seoul(Photos: IBK)
In a speech at the 2017 Branch Managers Meeting on Feb. 10, Chairman Kim Do¡¦			 |  
		
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			Samsung Group retains most of the current CEOs of its financial affiliates including President Kim Chang-woo, left, of Samsung Life, President Ahn Min-soo, middle, of Samsung Fire and Marine Insurance, and President Won Ki-chan, right. of Samsung Card.(Photos: Samsung Group)
President Kim Chang-soo¡¦			 |  
		
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			Chairman Lee Soo-chang of the Korea Life Insurance Association (Photo: KLIA)
The 4th Industrial Revolution is expected to open up a new world that humans have never experienced. The new revolution will emerge as a new paradigm for competition, changing the existing economic topography. 
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			President Yoon Woong-yong of KB Kookmin Card.
KB Kookmin Card has many kinds of credit cards, including the Good Day All-in Card, which gets cardholders a discount at service stations; Good Shopping Card, which is good for a discount at marts; Dadam Card, which earns points for accumulation at cert¡¦			 |  
		
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			Minister Joo Hyung-hwan of the Ministry of Trade,Industry and Energy, left, and Vice Chairman Ahn Sang-hwan of the Korea Exchange pose for a photo with President Ahmyrat Danatarov of the Turkmenistan Stock Exchange, 2nd Right, after signing an MOU on cooperation between the two stock exchanges on Ap¡¦			 |  | 
		
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				K-water President Yun Seog-dae poses with ambassadors from the five countries of the Mekong River during their meeting designed to discuss ways of promoting cooperation in sustainable water management at Samcheonggak, Seoul, on Sept. 26. (Photo: K-wa¡¦			 |  
			
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				Chairman & CEO Kim Tae-hyun of the National Pension Service delivers a commemorative speech at a ceremony to mark the 38th anniversary at NPS headquarters in Jeonju City on Sept. 18.The National Pension Service (NPS) held a ceremony to mark its 3¡¦			 |  
			
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				Minister Jeong Eun-kyeong of the Ministry of Health and Welfare poses with major participants of the 15th Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) High-Level Meeting on Health and the Economy (HLMHE) that took place from Sept. 15 to 16 at The Shilla ¡¦			 |  
			
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				President Hong Jin-bae of the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation and Rashid Bashir, Dean of Grainger College of Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States participate¡¦			 |  |  |