Woori Bank
Native name | 주식회사 우리은행 |
|---|---|
| Formerly | Hanvit Bank |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Financial services |
| Founded | 30 January 1899 |
| Headquarters | Jung-gu, , South Korea |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Jin Wan Jung, (president & CEO) Hyun Keun Yang (Standing Audit Committee Member/Director) |
| Products | |
| Revenue | ₩12,532 billion (FY 2019) |
| ₩2,800 billion (FY 2019) | |
| ₩2,038 billion (FY 2019) | |
| Total assets | ₩361,981 billion (FY 2019) |
| Total equity | ₩25,493 billion (FY 2019) |
Number of employees | 15,529 (2019) |
| 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 South 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.: 35
Woori Bank is known as the first South Korean bank to support web browsers other than Internet Explorer for online banking 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.