41.   Korean banks lag their foreign counterparts in terms of technology and productivity.

42.   Korean banks moved this week to prevent more collapses.

43.   Korean banks posted first-quarter losses amounting to one-third of their capital.

44.   Korean banks will have to make full provisions for loan losses and losses on their securities investments later this year.

45.   Like other Korean banks, Korea First saw its bad loans explode in the past two years following a string of bankruptcies by its borrowers.

46.   Lim said he expected foreign banks to resume lending to Korean banks and companies.

47.   Lee arrived in Tokyo last night to seek extensions on loans to Korean banks from six major Japanese banks, the official said.

48.   Meanwhile, Korean banks are making their utmost efforts to win the soft loans from the government.

49.   Mounting bad loans, the extent of which Korean banks sometimes mask, and high interest rates helped cause the red ink.

50.   Nextream develops software to link mainframe computers to the Internet and sells it mainly to Korean banks and other financial institutions.