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			|  | A Kookmin Card¡¯s credit card with the credit card firm to introduce Blockchain for personal verification to verify the online financial transactions for the first time in Korea.(Photos: Kookmin Card).
KB Kookmin Card may become the first credit card operator in Korea to introduce the Blockchain te¡¦	
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			Chairman Yoon Jong-kyoo of KB Financial Group leads the officers and staff of the financial group at a rally to continue to go all-out to make the group to hold on to its leading position in earnings in the financial industry(Photo: KFG)
KB Financial Group¡¯s Net Interest Income (NII) for Q3 reache¡¦			 |  
		
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			President Lee Kwang-goo of Woori Bank.
The South Korean lender announced Oct. 26 that it received final approval from the Philippine¡¯s financial authority to take over a 51 percent stake in Wealth Development Bank for 30 billion won ($26 million). With the stake purchase, Woori Bank will become th¡¦			 |  
		
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			President Ryu Sang-ho of Korea Investment and Securities Co.
Korea Investment and Securities bought some 1.5 trillion won worth of real estate abroad so far this year, the most among Korean securities firms, boosting investments in overseas real estate to diversify its assets due to a worsening fin¡¦			 |  
		
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			President Lee Kwang-goo of Woori Bank.
As many as 16 financial institutions and private equity funds from home and abroad have entered the preliminary bid for Woori Bank, whose government stake of 30 percent has been offered in splinters of 4 percent to 8 percent after four previous lump-sum privat¡¦			 |  
		
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			Chairman Han Dong-woo of Shinhan Financial Group is with Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn, right, who presented him with the Gold Tower Medal given by the Korea Productivity Center for his contribution to the reform of production activities in Korea this year. (Photo: Korea Productivity Center)
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			Chairman Yoon Jong-kyoo of KB Financial Group.
KB Financial Group continues to do well as its third quarter profit is projected to hit 500 billion won, building upon its solid first half 1.125 trillion won profit, up 19.1 percent year-on-year.
The group¡¯s overall performance so far this year has ¡¦			 |  
		
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			A number of dignitaries and officials of the International Private Banking Center of the Hana Bank in Gangnam, Seoul, cut the tape in an opening ceremony led by Chairman Kim Jung-tai of Hana Financial Group.(Photo: Hana Bank)
Hana Financial Group has been boosting the number of its multi-purpose br¡¦			 |  
		
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			Chairman Kim Yong-hwan, L, of NH Financial Group shakes hands with President Rudi G. Sadikin of Bank Mandiri after signing an MOU on cooperation between their two respective financial institutions in various financial areas including banking, insurance, securities, leasing and micro-financing, among¡¦			 |  
		
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			IBK President Kwon Seon-joo
The Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) has been preparing for the age of low-birth and an aged society by expanding financial products that can be transacted without customers visiting banking outlets in what¡¯s called ¡°non face-to-face transactions,¡± and expanding its ove¡¦			 |  | 
		
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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¡¦			 |  |  |