Kang Seok-hoon, Chairman of Korea Mountain Federation, "Will Lead Economic Rebound... Strengthening Profitability"

San-eun CI also as 'Korea Development Bank' at KDB

Kang Seok-hoon, Chairman of Korea Development Bank, stated on the 2nd, "We will fully launch the ‘Korea Rebound Program,’ which will provide a total of 100 trillion won in financial support to advanced strategic industries over the next three years," adding, "We will secure core competitiveness that will be responsible for Korea’s future growth engines and become the vanguard leading the leap forward of our economy."

Kang Seok-hoon, President of KDB Industrial Bank, is holding a press conference on the 2nd anniversary of his inauguration at the Industrial Bank in Yeouido, Seoul on the 11th. Photo by Kang Jin-hyung aymsdream@

On the same day, Chairman Kang held the 2025 New Year’s ceremony at the main auditorium of the Yeouido headquarters in Seoul, attended by executives and employees. In his New Year’s address, he emphasized, "Regardless of any external environmental changes, each division must do its best in their roles such as ‘improving profitability,’ ‘thorough profit and loss inspection and proactive prevention of potential insolvency,’ and ‘meticulous liquidity management’ to carry out sustainable policy finance."

Chairman Kang also raised the need to strengthen organizational capabilities. He said, "To respond to new environmental changes and understand future new technologies and industries, it is necessary to enhance employee capabilities, including expertise in artificial intelligence (AI)," and added, "Let’s create an efficient and enjoyable workplace through paperless operations and the introduction of in-house generative AI."

Regarding crisis response amid increasing internal and external uncertainties, he urged, "All executives and employees must continuously monitor the economic situation and strive to improve their crisis response capabilities in their respective fields."

Meanwhile, Chairman Kang changed the 2025 corporate identity (CI) of Korea Development Bank from ‘KDB Industrial Bank’ to ‘Korea Development Bank’ on the same day. He stated, "Let us all unite as one to make 2025 a year when customers and all citizens can truly feel the effects of the bank’s policy finance."