KB Kookmin Bank said on the 14th that it hosted the "2025 K-Business Leaders Forum" on the 11th at the Grand Walkerhill Hotel in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, inviting chief executive officers (CEOs) of small and midsize and mid-tier companies.
About 340 people attended the forum, including outstanding small and midsize and mid-tier company chief executive officers (CEOs) that have a transaction with Kookmin Bank and executives such as Yang Jong-hee, KB Financial Group chairman. The opening featured a lecture by Kim Dae-sik, a KAIST professor and neuroscientist, on the theme "The era of AGI market dominance: Intelligence that redraws the future map, insights for corporate survival and prosperity."
It then set up "KB Leaders Class," a selective program in which participants directly choose and attend sessions on the topics they want, to foster communication and collaboration among attendees. KB Leaders Class consisted of four sessions that CEOs are highly interested in: global economy, humanities, physics, and health. The global economy session was led by political scientist Kim Ji-yoon; the humanities session by docent Jeong Woo-cheol; the physics session by Kim Beom-jun, a professor at Sungkyunkwan University; and the health session by medical doctor Myeong Seung-gwon.
Lee Hwan-joo, Kookmin Bank president, said, "This forum was prepared to think together about changes in the coming management environment and to seek new paths for growth," adding, "We will continue to think through management challenges together and grow as a reliable financial partner for corporations."