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ATM for physically-challenged

An Woori Bank employee helps a physically-challenged customer use the lender’s automated teller machine (ATM), designed for wheelchair access, at its headquarters in downtown Seoul, Wednesday. The nation’s second-largest bank said it will establish the specially-designedATMs at all of its some 900 branches nationwide by April. / Courtesy of Woori

Nov 7, 2012

S-Oil supports the needy

S-Oil CEO Nasser Al-Mahasher, right, works with employees to deliver coal briquettes to low-income households in Hongje-dong, northwestern Seoul, Wednesday. Nearly 50,000 briquettes worth 30 million won weredonated as part of the “Coal Briquette of Love” program. / Courtesy of S-Oil

Nov 7, 2012

Heading for Myanmar

POSCO Chairman Chung Joon-yang, sixth from right in front row, poses with Lee Dong-hee, fourth from right in front row, vice chairman of Daewoo International, POSCO’s trading arm, and other dignitaries during a ceremonyto mark the departure of a gas production platform’s topside for Myanmar, at Hyundai Heavy Industries’ shipyard in Ulsan, Tuesday. The facility will be used by Daewoo International to produce natural gas from offshore fields of the Southeast Asian nation. The firm expects to produce gas from mid-2013 and earn up to 400 billion won annually for 25 years by exporting all of itsgas output to China through a pipeline. / Courtesy of Daewoo International

Nov 6, 2012

IBK finds Russian partner

Yoo Seok-ha, left, director of the global funding division at the Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK), poses with Mikhail Kopeikin, deputy chairman of Russian state lender Vnesheconombank, after the two banks signed a memorandum of understanding on various business activities at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Seoul, Tuesday. / Courtesy of IBK Korea

Nov 6, 2012

PYL festival

Hyundai Motor will hold a promotional event in November and December during which it will offer high-end digital cameras to customers who buy the Veloster, i30 or i40. They are now marketed under the brand of “Premium Younique Lifestyle” (PYL).  / Courtesy of Hyundai Motor

Nov 6, 2012

Recognized in Vietnam

Dao Quang Tu, left, deputy minister of Vietnam’s Ministry of Planning and Investment, poses with Hong Man-ki, director of Shinhan Bank’s Vietnamese unit, after awarding the company for its corporate social responsibility at a ceremony in Hanoi, Tuesday. / Courtesy of Shinhan Bank

Nov 6, 2012

Chinaware for overseas missions

A model poses with a set of bone china named “Dancheong,” which will be used at Korea’s 170 diplomatic posts in 51 countries, at Hankook Chinaware’s headquarters in Seoul, Monday. Dancheong is multicolored paintwork on wooden structures produced during the Joseon Kingdom (1392-1910)./ Courtesy of Hankook Chinaware

Nov 5, 2012

Art calendar

Merck Korea CEO Juergen Koenig poses with artist Kim Jihye, holding a calendar that features her work during a news conference at the Westin Chosun Seoul, Monday. The Korean affiliate of the German-based chemical and pharmaceutical company has promoted Korean painters through its corporate calendar to be distributed across the world since 2009./ Courtesy of Merck Korea

Nov 5, 2012

Customer feedback:

People use stickers to show their preference for a new Citibank Korea corporate slogan in commemoration of Citi Group’s 200th anniversary in a survey at the bank’s head office in central Seoul, Monday.  / Yonhap

Nov 5, 2012

Plastic hit:

The Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) says the number of customers for its 2X Card, which allows customers more freedom to pick discount options and other benefits based on their lifestyle patterns, has reached 500,000 just five months after its launch. / Courtesy of KEB

Nov 5, 2012

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ATM for physically-challenged

S-Oil supports the needy

Heading for Myanmar

IBK finds Russian partner

PYL festival

Recognized in Vietnam

Chinaware for overseas missions

Art calendar

Customer feedback:

Plastic hit:

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