SOOP is outlining plans for a new women’s professional volleyball team as it moves to expand its sports business. The company said it has confirmed the team name as SOOP Supers for the club it recently acquired from AI Peppers and appointed Kim Se-jin as the team’s first head coach. SOOP said it will proceed step by step with roster building, staffing and operational systems.

KB Kookmin Bank will work with Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance to expand safety management support for small and mid-sized companies and sole proprietors. The bank plans to provide an AI-based safety assessment service free of charge and link it to financial benefits such as preferential loan rates, aiming to strengthen firms\' safety management capabilities and ease management burdens. Samsung Fire will offer free safety improvement reports from June, and the bank will expand financial support in the third quarter.