Nara Bancorp, Inc. to Host Webcast to Discuss Fourth Quarter 2004 Resu

    Business Editors

    LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2005--Nara Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq:NARA), the holding company for Nara Bank will host a webcast on Tuesday, February 1, 2005, at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time (11 a.m. Eastern Time). The conference call will feature Benjamin Hong, President & CEO, and Timothy Chang, Chief Financial Officer in a discussion of fourth quarter and full year 2004 results and operating developments.
    The financial results will be released over the news wires on January 31, 2005 after the market closes.
    This call is being webcast by Thomson/CCBN and can be accessed at Nara Bank's Web site at www.narabank.com.
    The webcast is also being distributed through the Thomson StreetEvents Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call at www.fulldisclosure.com, Thomson/CCBN's individual investor portal, powered by StreetEvents. Institutional investors can access the call via Thomson's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com).

    About Nara Bancorp, Inc.

    Nara Bancorp, Inc. is the parent company of Nara Bank, which was founded in 1989. Nara Bank is a full-service commercial bank headquartered in Los Angeles with twenty-five branches and loan production offices in the United States, and one representative office in Seoul, Korea. Nara Bank operates full-service branches in California and New York with loan production offices in California, Washington, Colorado, Texas, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, and Virginia. Nara Bank was founded specifically to serve the needs of Korean- Americans, one of the fastest-growing Asian ethnic communities over the past decade. Presently, Nara Bank serves a diverse group of customers mirroring its communities. Nara Bank specializes in core business banking products for small and medium-sized companies with emphasis in commercial real estate and business lending, SBA lending and international trade financing. Nara Bank is a member of the FDIC and is an Equal Opportunity Lender. For more information on Nara Bank call our Los Angeles office at 213-639-1700 or New York office at 212-279-2790 or visit our website at www.narabank.com. Nara Bancorp, Inc. stock is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol "NARA."

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CONTACT: Nara Bancorp, Inc. Benjamin Hong, 213-639-1700 or Timothy T. Chang, 213-637-2596 timchang@narabank.com or Annie Ahn (Public Relations), 213-427-6315 annie@narabank.com

KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: BANKING EARNINGS CONFERENCE CALLS SOURCE: Nara Bancorp, Inc.

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