SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 63 percent of South Koreans have used banking and payment services via smartphones as a growing number are getting familiar with the tech device in their everyday lives, a central bank poll showed Tuesday. The survey of 2,597 adults, conducted by the Bank of Korea (BOK) last [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) announced on Wednesday that there have been 270,000 medical insurance subscriptions over the past 10 months for a new insurance policy that was launched last year. The insurance policy, which was released in April of last year, is a product with a lowered threshold [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s four major banks reduced their payrolls by more than 9 percent over the past two years due to the fast spread of Internet and phone banking, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. The lenders — KB Kookmin, Shinhan, KEB Hana and Nonghyup — cut their combined workforce by [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean health insurance companies are coming up with ‘mini insurance plans’ to attract customers in their 20s to 40s. Mini insurance plans allow customers to select specific levels of protection at affordable prices of less than 10,000 won (US$8.95) per month. KB Insurance Co. announced on Tuesday that [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to let banks open their payment systems to financial technology firms, in a move that would provide a level playing field for new players and increase competition in the financial industry, officials said Wednesday. The plan was announced at a meeting chaired by Finance Minister Hong [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — According to financial industry watchers on Saturday, KB Kookmin Bank has extended the promotion period for the KB X BTS installment savings account to February 28. BTS, a famous idol group in South Korea, acted as models in promotional materials for the new account. The promotion was expected to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Seung-hwa usually visits banks at this time of year to get crisp new bills to prepare to give Lunar New Year’s cash gifts to her relatives. This year, the 37-year-old office worker in Seoul deposited 300,000 won (US$267) in her digital wallet, Kakao Pay, so she could wire [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Six out of ten South Koreans in their forties and fifties continue to bear the financial burden of supporting their children, even after having retired. According to a survey conducted by the Korea Insurance Development Institute on South Korean citizens living in six major cities, 56.6 percent of those [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading lenders have wrapped up their labor deals for the new year that aim to help employees better strike a balance between work and their personal lives, industry watchers said Monday. Late last week, the labor and the management of KB Kookmin Bank reached a deal on [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — High Credit, in-house venture firm of Shinhan Card Co., announced on Thursday that it had developed a credit evaluation model for foreigners living in South Korea. The newly developed credit evaluation model has greatly increased the bank’s ability to differentiate risks by applying non-financial information through big data to [...]