[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Citibank Korea has opened its first Citigold Private Client Center in the 12th floor of Gangnam Finance Center on August 17, 2012. On the day of the opening, senior management from regional and local offices including Jonathan Larsen (Global Retail Banking Head), YK Ha (Citibank Korea CEO), Paul Hodes (AP Consumer Bank Wealth Management Head) joined with Citibank employees and clients to celebrate the opening. Citigold Private Clients targets top tier clients in the bank with minimum total balance of 1 billion KRW and, of these, 500 million in the investment assets. Citib
[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]BIOTRONIK, a leading manufacturer of innovative medical technology, announced today that the first patient in the United States has been implanted with the company's Lumax 740 dual-chamber implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). “Patients on anti-arrhythmic medication may have slower ventricular tachycardias, which can influence a patient‘s hemodynamics and directly affect a device’s ability to discriminate arrhythmias and successfully restore a normal rhythm,” said Larry A. Chinitz, M.D, Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology, Invasive Cardiology at the NYU Heart Rhyth
[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, a top ‘pro-Korean’ law firm based in the U.S., will open a foreign legal consultant office – the first of its kind in Korea – on the 23rd floor of Center One Building in Euljiro, Seoul, on August 16. The new office, which is the firm’s 16th location, will be led by Partner Seth (Byoung Soo) Kim. Kim was previously based in Sheppard Mullin‘s New York and Los Angeles offices and chair of the firm’s Korea practice. Founded in 1927, Sheppard Mullin now serves more than half of the Fortune 100 companies in the U.S., while hav
[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]Korea Global Peace Festival (GPF) Foundation (Chairman: Hyunjin Moon) will hold Global Peace Leadership Conference Korea 2012 (GPLC 2012) at Grand Hilton Hotel in Seoul on Aug. 17-18, 2012. This is the fourth event after the opening of GPLC 2011 in Mongolia, Malaysia, and South Korea. GPLC 2012 will be held in line with the theme Future Vision of a Unified Korea and the Establishment of Global Peace, and will be participatedin by academic and field experts from the U.S., Russia, Japan, and China who have been active in the fields related to Northeast Asian security for mor
[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]Payvision, independent Payment Solutions Provider specialized in Global Card Processing for the e-Commerce market, is glad to announce its partnership with Virtual Piggy, a highly innovative, California-based technology company which provides parents with Payment Services to safeguard and manage their kids' online spending. Rudolf Booker, CEO of Payvision: “As e-commerce booms, children increasingly shop online on websites which offer Gaming, Toys, Action Sports, Consumer Electronics and Youth Entertainment. As a Global Card Processor, we are enthused to provide Virtual Pi
[NBC-1TV 김은혜 기자]故 육영수 여사 38주기 추도식이 15일 오전 서울 동작동 국립서울현충원에서 8000여 명(주최 측 추산)의 추도객이 참석한 가운데 엄수됐다.박근혜 새누리당 대선경선 후보는 유족인사에서 "어머니 유지를 받들어 사회 어려운 분에게 희망을 드리고 흔들리는 나라를 다시 세우는데 작은 힘이나마 보태야겠다는 생각이 정치를 시작했던 이유"라며 "앞으로 어머니께 부끄럽지 않고 믿어주시는 국민의 신뢰에 보답할 수 있도록 더 열심히 노력하겠다"고 말했다.오전 10시부터 시작된 이날 행사는 현충문 앞 광장에 주차된 40여 대의 관광차에서 내린 참배객들과 개인 참배자들로 북새통을 이루며 진행돼 30분만에 마무리됐다.행사직 후 부터 본격적으로 내린 비는 물폭탄을 연상케 할 만큼 국지성 호우로 돌변했지만 유족인 박근혜 새누리당 대선경선 후보는 오후 1시까지 추모객들과 일일이 개별 인사를 나누며 참배에 대한 예를 갖추었다.이날 추도식에는 박 후보의 팬클럽(박사모, 뉴박사모, 근혜동산, 근혜사랑)과 육영수여사를 사랑하는 모임 등이 단체별로 천막을 치고 봉사활동을 펼쳤으나 일체의 단체명을 표시하지 않았다.일반 참배객으로 추도식에 참석한 이준규(56. 경기도
[NBC-1TV 김은혜 기자]반기문 유엔 사무총장과 부인 유순택 여사가 14일 서울 종로구 창성동 유니세프 한국위원회를 방문한 후 의전차량을 타고 이동하고 있다.
[NBC-1TV 김은혜 기자]반기문 유엔 사무총장과 부인 유순택 여사가 14일 서울 종로구 창성동 유니세프 한국위원회를 방문을 마치고 떠난 후 류종수 유니세프한국위원회 사무총장이 육군학생군사학교장 이상현 소장과 기념 촬영을 하고 있다.