Woori Financial Group

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
 Soon-Woo Lee, CEO
Products Financial Services
Website www.woorifg.com
Korean name
Hangul 우리금융그룹
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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