Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.

Shinhan Bank

South Korean bank

Shinhan Bank Co., Ltd. is a South-Korean bank headquartered in Seoul. It was founded under this name in 1982, but through its merger with Chohung Bank in 2006, traces its origins to the Hanseong Bank, one of the first banks to be established in Korea. It is part of the Shinhan…

List of banks in South Korea

This is a list of South Korean banks and the parenthesized number is the bank number.

Seoul

Capital of South Korea

Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's sixth largest metropolitan economy in 2022, trailing behind New York,…