CKI, Celebrating Sales of Wonderful Home Run Account Sponsoring ‘Baseball Team of Seoul National School For The Deaf’

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Citibank Korea Inc.
June 28, 2011 09:49 Korea Standard Time

SEOUL--(Korea Newswire)--Citibank Korea, Inc. (CEO Ha Yung Ku, www.citibank.co.kr) contributed sponsorship and commemorative summer T-shirts to ‘Seoul Dragons,’ a baseball team of Seoul National School For The Deaf in celebration of sales of Wonderful Home Run Account.

On the same day, in the event prepared with sponsorship contribution, formal Sammi Superstars pitcher Sa-yong Kam visited SNSFTD as a one-day coach, demonstrating pitching himself and having a signing event. SNSFTD students who dream of becoming a baseball player had a memorable time as Kam watched a game between SK and Hanwha with SNSFTD team players at Incheon Munhak Baseball Stadium which was the home stadium of Sammi Superstars. A student who participated in this event on the day said, ‘I was very happy to watch a baseball game with formal professional baseball player Kam and have a chance to learn from his coaching. I will do my best to become a professional baseball player.’

At a time of ever increasing popularity of professional baseball, Citibank Korea, Inc. is selling a unique product named Wonderful Home Run Account which is the only free withdrawal and deposit account customized for baseball fans. With this specialized product, customers can enjoy pleasure from both baseball games and savings as interest rates rise depending upon the number of home runs during a regular baseball season and special rates are added when teams pre-designated by customers hit home runs. Wonderful Home Run Account △begins with a basic interest rate of annual 0.1%(before tax) and △ the interest rate increases whenever the number of accumulated home runs passes a certain mark △ while preferential rates are applied additionally when it is the team selected by customers that hits the home run to pass the pre-designated mark so that customers may enjoy two times higher interest rates. In addition, if the no. 1 home run player hits more than 50 home runs or the number of baseball audience is recorded as more than 6 million, special rates are also added only for the event occurs first among the two in celebration of a new record.

For more details on Wonderful Home Run Account, please visit nearby Citibank branches or homepage (www.citibank.co.kr).

Website: http://www.citibank.co.kr

Contact

Shin, Hyeon Jeong
Communication Dept.
Citibank Korea Inc.
82-2-3455-2330

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