1.   At that point, the Finance Ministry and Bank of Japan would follow with tax credits and preferential loans for the agricultural cooperatives and the small banks.

2.   Opponents of chaebol ownership argue that banks would offer preferential loans to their parent groups.

3.   Those laws limit how much a bank may lend to insiders, and bar banks from giving preferential loan rates to insiders.

4.   His bank offered preferential loans to blacks and accused multinational banks of discriminating against black entrepreneurs who lacked collateral.

5.   Hwang was accused of taking bribes in return for helping the bankrupt steel company get preferential loans from government-controlled banks.

6.   In the past, the government often pressured banks to make preferential loans to companies seen as furthering national development goals.

7.   Kang was also accused of pressuring banks to provide preferential loans to two financially shaky companies run by a relative and a friend, the prosecutor said.

8.   Prosecutors suspected some of those politicians may have received bribes to help Hanbo get preferential loans.

9.   The government has recently provided preferential loans to fishermen to buy big trawlers for off-shore fishing.

10.   The steel company owner was found to have embezzled company money to bribe government officials and bankers to get preferential loans.