Lee Moon-hwan, head of K-Bank (pictured), expressed his gratitude after one year in office. K-Bank plans to immediately switch to the role of acting as a bank manager and appoint a new president as early as this month. It is noteworthy whether K Bank, which has been focusing on normalization after reopening business last year, will continue the windbreak without a business gap.
According to banknotes on the 7th, Chairman Lee announced his intention to resign on the day for personal reasons. Lee’s term of office was until March 2022. K-Bank immediately switched to the system of acting as a bank manager. K-Bank Vice President Jung Woon-ki is the acting agency.
After taking office as Chairman Lee, K-Bank completed a paid-in capital increase of 400 billion won and resumed its loan business. The K-Bank side was reluctant to comment on Lee’s’reason for personal injury’. Chairman Lee is known to have suffered considerable stress after taking office in March of last year while promoting the capital increase.
From the 8th, K-Bank will operate the Committee for Recommendation of Candidate for Executives (Chuwi Lim) to select candidates for the next president and recommend them to the board of directors. After the long list is confirmed as soon as possible, the plan is to finalize the next venue this month.
A K-bank official said, “We have immediately switched to the role of acting bank president Jeong Woon-ki so that there is no business gap,” and said, “We will appoint a bank president candidate according to fair and transparent procedures and appoint a new bank president within this month as much as possible.”
Chairman Lee served as Head of Corporate Communications Business Division, Head of Strategic Planning Office, and Head of Corporate Business Division at KT. He is regarded as a communication electronics and planning expert. Since 2018, he served as the president and CEO of BC Card, a subsidiary of KT, and became the second largest banker of K-Bank in March last year in recognition of his management ability in the financial sector.
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