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			|  | Chairman Shin Chang-jae of Kyobo Life Insurance Co.
Kyobo Life Insurance Co. has been working hard to develop new insurance products and to mix Fintech in its operation as the company committed to reforms earlier this year.
In his new year¡¯s speech, Chairman Shin Chang-jae called for reform to fi¡¦	
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			Top leaders of the General Insurance Association of Korea led by Chairman Chang Nam-sik pose for a photo session after a recent meeting to discuss the current problems facing the non-life insurance industry. (Photo: GIAK)
Chairman Chang Nam-sik of the General Insurance Association of Korea (GIAK) u¡¦			 |  
		
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			Chairman Hwang Young-key of the Korea Financial Investment Association.
South Korean institutions and individual investors increased their holdings in overseas real estate assets over the past several years as part of moves to make up for losses amid falling profits from traditional domestic equiti¡¦			 |  
		
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			President Kim Won-kyu of NH Investment and Securities Co. shakes hands with President Ralph Schlosstein of Evercore, a leading investment banking advisory firm in the U.S., after signing an agreement of strategic alliance in the U.S. M&A market on Aug. 31. (Photo:NHIS)
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			Chairman Park Hyun-joo of Mirae Asset Group.
Mirae Asset Daewoo Securities introduced a new service to take care of retirement savings more seriously for cases where those funds had been neglected.
The company will confirm the earnings that owners aspire to achieve, and then draw up ways to attain¡¦			 |  
		
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			President Ryu Sang-ho of Korea Investment and Securities Co.A view G Square, a multiple shopping mall, in Pyeongchon, Gyeonggi Province (Photos:KIS)
Korea Investment and Securities Co. (KIS) took over G Square, a multiple shopping mall, in Pyeongchon, Gyeonggi Province, for 834.1 billion won, in wh¡¦			 |  
		
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			President Chun Myung-ho of KB Investment and Securities Co.
KB Investment and Securities Co. announced first-half sales amounting to 535.1 billion won, up 35.1 percent year-on-year, and operating profit of 43.3 billion won, down 3.3 percent year-on-year, doing far better than its rivals.
Many inve¡¦			 |  
		
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			Chairman Lee Soo-chang of Korea Life Insurance Association.
Chairman Lee Soo-chang of the Korea Life Insurance Association (KLIA) said recently that life insurance policies should be the means to ensure a stable life for everyone after retirement, as not enough people are entitled to the national p¡¦			 |  
		
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			President Choi Kyung-soo of the Korea Exchange, L, shakes hands with Chairman Lee Sush-dern of Taiwan Stock Exchange during their meeting on April 1 at KRX Seoul office to talk about mutual projects between the two stock exchanges.
The Korea Exchange said on Sept. 5 that it will hold a campaign eve¡¦			 |  
		
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			Chairman Kim Byung-won of the National Agricultural Cooperatives Federation.
Chairman Kim Byung-won of the National Agricultural Cooperatives Federation (NACF) delivered strict instructions to the heads of local NACF units on how to get the best price for farm produce. He also asked local autonomou¡¦			 |  | 
		
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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¡¦			 |  |  |