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Jeong Ho Suh

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Jeong Ho Suh joined the KIF as a Research Fellow in March 2010. His areas of interest include financial conglomerates, risk management, rating agencies, and convergence. He began his professional career as an Economist at the Bank of Korea in February 1987. He also served as a Manager on the Risk Supervision Team for the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) for two years.

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Book/Special report

EU-Korea Economic Exchange

Articles published during the Bruegel/Korea Institute of Finance project on ‘EU-Korea policy responses to the global financial and economic crisis and the scope for internationalisation of the financial services industry’

By: Zsolt Darvas, Chung-Han Kim, Shahin Vallée, Nicolas Véron, Haesik Park, Georg Zachmann, Jeong Ho Suh, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Christopher Byungho Suh, Reinhilde Veugelers, Hyoungsik Noh, Sungwook Park, Jabonn Kim, Mansoo Jee, Marco Antonielli and Mario Mariniello Topic: Global economy and trade Date: April 22, 2013
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Blog Post

Effects of IFRS on Korean banks, and future prospects

Korean firms’ business activities, such as risk management and foreign investment, have been affected by the obligation since 2011 to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Korean banks may need to reshape their credit-rating models and enhance their loan-collection systems to prepare for further changes in loan-loss accounting. In addition, the financial authorities must provide […]

By: Jeong Ho Suh Topic: Global economy and trade Date: May 11, 2012
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Blog Post

Development of the mobile payments market in Korea

Figure 1: Use of mobile banking in KoreaSource: Bank of Korea. Improved mobile communications, and links to credit card providers, along with the smartphone boom, has encouraged growth in Korea’s domestic mobile payments market. In  February 2010, SK Telecom secured a 49 percent share of the Hana SK Card to become the first limited partnership […]

By: Jeong Ho Suh Topic: Global economy and trade Date: February 2, 2012