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Yoo Young-jun, left, general manager at KB Kookmin Bank's New York branch, shakes hands with Joseph D. Giarraputo, publisher and president of Global Finance, an English-language financial magazine, during the Best Private Bank Awards ceremony at the Harvard Club in New York, Feb. 5. The bank was recognized as Korea's best private lender for the third year in a row. Courtesy of KB Kookmin Bank
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