Chairman Lee Eog-weon of the Financial Services Commission held a meeting with a group of financial consumers and officials from related organizations on February 4 to seek practical solutions to the needs and challenges of financial consumers. At the meeting, Chairman Lee outlined some of the key consumer-oriented policy initiatives introduced by the government and pledged to continue to maintain close communication with consumers to help remove inconvenience and bring about practical solutions to their needs. At today's meeting, the issue of bank branch closures and the ensuing inconvenience for consumers were discussed. In this regard, authorities plan to prepare measures to resolve consumer inconvenience resulting from bank branch closures for implementation from March this year.