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Chairman Kim Jung-tai of Hana Financial Group. (Photos: Hana Financial Group)In 2021, Hana Financial Group’s annual net profit surpassed 3 trillion won for the first time in the company’s history, as increased loans and interest rate hikes significantly drove the growth of interest income. Ha…
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Sohn Tae-seung, chairman of Woori Financial Group. (Photos: Woori Financial Group)For Woori Financial Group, 2021 was the best ever year in its history. It succeeded in its complete privatization and logged its highest business performance ever, with its annual net profit nearly doubling from 2020.O…
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Son Byung-hwan, chairman of NH NongHyup Financial Group, has time to check and discuss the status of overseas stores’ business operations in a New Year’s meeting with heads of overseas branches on Jan. 26. (Photo: NH NongHyup Financial Group) NH NongHyup Financial surpassed 2 trillion won in …
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Shinhan Bank President Jin Ok-dong delivers a big speech at the 2022 Management Strategy Meeting and the 2021 General Achievement Evaluation Conference on Jan. 21. (Photo: Shinhan Bank)Jin Ok-dong, president of Shinhan Bank, said at the 2022 Management Strategy Meeting on Jan. 21, “In order to be l…
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President Lee Jae-keun of KB Kookmin Bank. (Photo: KB Kookmin Bank)KB Kookmin Bank and SK Telecom signed an NUGU-based AI Banking Service Business Agreement in 2021. In early February of this year, they introduced “Conversation with Koli,” which is an AI-powered service of a KB banking app.Convers…
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President Park Sung-ho of Hana Bank. (Photos: Hana Bank)Hana Bank will ramp up investments in digital healthcare platforms. To that end, the bank announced on Feb. 10 that it signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Cenacle Soft leading the cloud electronic medical record (EMR) sect…
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Lee Won-duk to take office as new president of Woori BankLee Won-duk, senior vice president of Woori Financial Group, has been tapped as the next Woori Bank president. Analysts say that Lee is the right person to improve the vitality and management stability of Woori Bank, such as injecting fre…
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Kwon Joon-hak, president of NH Bank, held a video meeting for 2022 with heads of 10 overseas branches at the bank headquarters in Jung-gu, Seoul on Feb. 10. (Photo: NH Bank)Kwon Joon-hak, president of NH Bank, examined the business performance of overseas branches and subsidiaries. NH Bank anno…
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Chairman Choi Hyun-man of Mirae Asset Securities. (Photo: Mirae Asset Securities)Mirae Asset Securities announced on Jan. 27 that it posted the company’s best-ever business performance, with provisional operating profit of 1.4858 billion won on a consolidated basis in 2021. For the first time …
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Korea Investment Holdings Chairman Kim Nam-goo. (Photos: Korea Investment & Securities)Korea Investment & Securities posted its best-ever business performance last year. In an electronic filing on the company’s provisional business results issued on Feb. 10, Korea Investment & Secu…
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President Lee Jae-myung takes an oath as he took office as the 21st president in an inauguration ceremony at the National Assembly Rotunda Hall in Yeouido, Seoul, on June 4. (Photos on the courtesy of the Presidential Office)President Lee Jae-myung w…
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(from left) Presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung on the ticket of the opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) and presidential candidate Kim Moon-soo on the ticket of the People Power Party (PPP). (Photos: DPK, PPP)Presidential candidate Lee Jae-m…
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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance Choi Sang-mok. (Photo: MOEF)Minister Ahn Deok-geun of Trade, Industry and Energy. (Photo: MOTIE)U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcing of reciprocal tariffs on imports in a reversal of long…
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Visitors at Samsung Electronics Pavilion try on the Galaxy S25 at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025, which took place at Fira Gran Via, Barcelona from March 3-6. (Photo: Samsung Electronics)Lee Jae-yong of Samsung Electronics, rebuking his executives …
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