NongHyup Financial Group Recommends Seo Eun-sook, Lee Soon-ho, Ha Kyung-ja as New Outside Directors

Appointed at the Shareholders' Meeting on the 31st, Term Begins April 1

[Asia Economy Reporter Sim Nayoung] NongHyup Financial Group held the Executive Candidate Recommendation Committee (hereinafter referred to as the "Recommendation Committee") on the 25th and recommended three candidates as the final nominees for new outside directors: Seo Eun-sook (Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, Sangmyung University), Lee Soon-ho (Head of Banking and Insurance Research Division 2, Korea Institute of Finance), and Ha Kyung-ja (Professor, Department of Atmospheric Environmental Sciences, Pusan National University).

The newly recommended outside director candidates will take over the positions of outside directors at NongHyup Financial Group, replacing Lee Jin-soon and Nam Yoo-sun, whose terms expire at the end of March, and Lee Mi-kyung, who resigned, leaving a vacancy.

Candidate Seo Eun-sook is a professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at Sangmyung University and is currently active in the economic and financial sectors as a member of the Ministry of Economy and Finance's Fiscal Policy Advisory Committee, an operating committee member of Korea Investment Corporation, and an asset management committee member of the Korea Credit Guarantee Fund.

Candidate Lee Soon-ho is the head of the Banking and Insurance Research Division 2 at the Korea Institute of Finance and has served as an advisory member for credit information big data at the Korea Credit Information Services and as an advisory member for financial consumer protection and bank dispute prevention at the Korea Federation of Banks.

Candidate Ha Kyung-ja is a professor in the Department of Atmospheric Environmental Sciences at Pusan National University and is an ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) expert actively engaged in the climate and environmental fields, currently serving as president of the Korean Meteorological Society, chairperson of the Environmental Safety Subcommittee of the National Life Science Advisory Group, and a specialist member of the World Meteorological Organization.

The three candidates will be officially appointed at the NongHyup Financial Group shareholders' meeting scheduled for the 31st, with their terms beginning on April 1, 2022.

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