Chairman and President Lee Duk-hoon of Korea Export and Import Bank. The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Korea Eximbank) announced recently that it held a briefing on Korea Eximbank’s core strategy for the first half of 2014’ for major Korean exporters at the CCMM Building in Yeouido, Seoul.&…

President Park Geun-hye speaks at the 3rd Meeting of the Presidential Committee for Cultural Enrichment held at Bitmaru Broadcasting Support Center in Ilsan, Geyonggi Province on April 4. President Kwon Seon-joo of the Industrial Bank of Korea pledged that IBK will expand its help to the cultu…

Chairman Han Dong-woo of Shinhan Financial Group who initiated the group’s “Compassionate Finance” as the theme of the group’s all management strategies to achieve the group’s targets. When Chairman Han Dong-woo arrived at the group as chairman in 2011, he found that the conflic…

Chairman Lim Young-rok of KB Financial Group The KB Financial Group must seek new sources of profit including offering a financial product linking real estate and financing, securing domination of the Smart financial market, strengthening retirement financial services, and special booths for workin…

A Hana Bank official promotes the Western Union Automatic Remittance as part of a service Hana Bank and Western Union have agreed to offer.  Hana Bank announced that it has launched the Hana-Western Union Remittance Service under an agreement with Western Union, a well-known U.S remittanc…

Chairman Lim Jong-ryong of NH Financial Group. With the takeover of Woori Investment and Securities Co., NH Financial Group will rank fourth in terms of assets among financial groups in Korea. The financial group was named the priority bidder in an open bidding for the securities firm last Decemb…

Chairman Lee Soon-woo of Woori Financial Group Woori Bank shares may be sold off to as many bidders as there are in an open bidding as recommended by the Korea Financial Research Institute. The institute held a policy discussion at the Korea Banker’s Building in Seoul on the best way to privatize…

President Kim Han-jo of Korea Exchange Bank. “The buck stops here,” was written on a signboard and placed on the desk of late U.S. President Harry Truman in the Oval Office at the White House when he was the Chief Executive. He was the U.S. president who ordered the drop of nuclear bombs over Hir…

A slew of dignitaries is seen at a ceremony to open the gold trading market at Korea Exchange (KRX) on March 24 led by Chairman Shin Je-yoon of Financial Services Commission and KRX Chairman & CEO Choi Kyung-soo, among them. (Photo: KRX) Korea Exchange (KRX) opened its gold tradi…