Woori Financial Group
logo of Woori Financial Group | |
Public | |
Traded as | KRX: 053000 NYSE: WF |
Industry | Financial |
Fate | Merged back into Woori Bank |
Founded | 2001 |
Defunct | 2014 |
Headquarters | Seoul, South Korea |
Key people
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Soon-Woo Lee, CEO |
Products | Financial Services |
Website | www.woorifg.com |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 우리금융그룹 |
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Hanja | 우리金融그룹 |
Revised Romanization | Uri Geumyung Geurup |
McCune–Reischauer | Uri Kŭmyung Kŭrup |
Woori Financial Group is a Seoul-based banking and financial services holdings company and is the largest bank in South Korea. Woori has had a short history as a financial institution. It was formed in 2001 from the forced merger of 4 predecessor commercial banks and an investment bank (Hanvit, Peace, Kwangju and Kyongnam Banks and Hanaro Investment Banking and their subsidiaries). The banks were taken over and recapitalised by the government because they had fallen below the Basel I Accord mandated eight percent capital adequacy ratio. The South Korean Government, through the Korean Deposit Insurance Corporation, remains the primary investor as a result.
This came about as a part of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, which affected the operations of virtually all banks and financial firms in South Korea.
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