With the inauguration of the second chairman Kim Jung-tai, Hana Financial Group has opened a new chapter in its history. The group continues to improve its professional, distinctive global financial services through the expansion of its global presence. Moving beyond the Korean market, Hana Financial Group is now in a position to become a world-class financial group with an extensive scope of operations, and to possess the largest global network in the Korean financial industry.

Hana Financial Group was launched in December 2005 with the aim of bolstering customer satisfaction and happiness through comprehensive financial products and services. The launch also enabled the group to take one step closer to its vision of realizing a premier financial service network, a market leader with greater synergy among its subsidiaries in banking, securities, credit cards, capital, and insurance.
To adapt to the rapid changes in customer demand, which increasingly favors a universal banking system, the group has adopted a business-unit matrix structure. This customer-centric system provides customers with integrated one-stop financial service with an emphasis on enhancing customer convenience.
To achieve mid-term goal by 2015 to become a world top 50 financial group based on its leadership in East Asia, Hana Financial Group has developed new growth engines, introduced new services with non-financial industries, and cultivated professional global talent.

In 1991, Hana Investment & Finance completed its conversion into a commercial bank, renamed Hana Bank. After the conversion, Hana Bank turned potential risks arising from rapid changes in Korea's economy and financial industry into another opportunity for future growth. The bank overcame unfavorable market conditions through its unwavering entrepreneurship, placing priority on customers and paving the way for the future. As a result, Hana Bank maintained decades of profitability and continued to pay dividends, the longest such period of profit in the Korean banking industry. With this success, it is now set to become a world-class financial group.

Founded in 1971 as Korea's first financial company funded solely with private capital, Korea Investment & Finance Corporation exhibited an indomitable entrepreneurial spirit, with a focus on independence and autonomy. It played an essential role as an emerging, promising newcomer in the Korean financial industry. Along with a transparent management that represents the full composition of shareholders, the company led the financial industry as a pioneer, with strong independence from the government, until it was converted into Hana Bank in 1991.