Woori Bank

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Woori Bank

Woori Bank Headquarters at Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Native name	주식회사 우리은행
Formerly	Hanvit Bank
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Financial services
Founded	30 January 1899; 125 years ago (1899-01-30)
Headquarters	Jung-gu, Seoul , South Korea
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Kwang-Seok Kwon, (President & Chief Executive Officer) Byeong-Yong Jang (Standing Audit Committee Member/Director)
Products	Retail banking corporate banking investment banking insurance private banking private equity mortgage loans credit cards investment management wealth management asset management mutual funds exchange-traded funds index funds
Revenue	₩12,532 billion (FY 2019)[1]
Operating income	₩2,800 billion (FY 2019)[1]
Net income	₩2,038 billion (FY 2019)[1]
Total assets	₩361,981 billion (FY 2019)[1]
Total equity	₩25,493 billion (FY 2019)[1]
Number of employees	15,529 (2019)[1]
Parent	Woori Financial Group
Rating	Moody's: A1 S&P: A Fitch: A-
Website	go.wooribank.com

Woori Bank (Korean: 우리은행, romanized: Uri Eunhaeng, lit. 'Our Bank') is a Korean multinational bank headquartered in Seoul. It is one of the four largest domestic banks in South Korea and has a strong presence in commercial banking and corporate finance in the Republic of Korea. Tracing its roots to the Daehan Cheon-il Bank, founded in 1899, it went through multiple transformations until adopting its current name in 2002. By then, it was South Korea's second-largest bank, behind Kookmin Bank.^[2]: 35

Woori Bank is known as the first South Korean bank to support web browsers other than Internet Explorer for online banking^[3][4] in Korea.

As of 2020, Woori ranks 95th among the largest banks in the world in terms of total assets with 311,852 billion in USD as of the end of 2019.^{[citation needed]}

Woori Bank traces its origins to the establishment of Daehan Cheon-il Bank in 1899, subsequently renamed Joseon Commercial Bank in 1911 and Korea Commercial Bank in 1950. Woori Bank's Jongno branch is located in the Gwangtonggwan building, which is considered the oldest continuously operating bank building in Korea.^[5] On March 5, 2001, the branch was registered as a Seoul City Historic Landmark.^[6]

Following the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Korea Commercial Bank merged with Hanil Bank to become Hanvit Bank, simultaneously with a public capital injection that made the Korean government the dominant shareholder, then in 2001 with Peace Bank, and adopted the name Woori Bank in 2002. In 2014, after some amalgamation proceedings related to its parent company, Woori Bank absorbed Woori Financial Group.^{[citation needed]}

The privatization process was a protracted effort. The Korean government reduced its equity holding in Woori Bank in stages, selling a 29.7 percent block in November 2016,^[7] another 9.3 percent in November 2021,^[8] and its residual holding in March 2024.^[9]

The following lists all major offices and branches. All data are as of the end of January 2018 for Overseas and June 2020 for South Korea.

• Number of branches and offices: 862

• United States as Woori America Bank (multiple locations)
• London, United Kingdom
• Singapore, Singapore
• Tokyo, Japan
• Hanoi, Vietnam; Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
• Bahrain, Bahrain
• Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Chennai, India
• Manila, Philippines as Wealthbank (Woori Bank Subsidiary) A Development Bank
• Dubai, UAE
• Sydney, Australia
• Jakarta, Indonesia as Woori Saudara Bank
• Moscow, Russia; Saint Petersburg, Russia as Woori Bank Russia
• Beijing, China as Woori Bank of China Limited
• Hong Kong, China, as Woori Investment Bank
• São Paulo, Brazil as Brazil Woori Bank
• Yangon, Myanmar as Woori Finance Myanmar
• Phnom Penh, Cambodia as Woori Finance Cambodia
• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Office)
• Teheran, Iran (Office)
• Kaesong Industrial Complex, North Korea (former)

In 2004, Woori Bank opened its Gaeseong Industrial Complex branch, in Gaeseong, North Korea, the first foreign bank to do so in North Korea. Woori Bank has operations in Bangladesh, India and Indonesia. On 14 March 2012, its Indonesian subsidiary, Bank Woori Indonesia, announced a plan to merge with a local bank, Bank Saudara.^[10] In April 2012, Woori Bank opened its first branch in India at Chennai.^[11]

Woori Bank has major clientele from all over South Korea, including but not limited to: Samsung Electronics, CJ Group, Hanwha, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Yonsei University, and Korean University of Foreign Studies (HUFS).

• List of banks in South Korea
• Woori Financial Group

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