*South Korea’s fiscal year starts on January 1 and ends on December 31.
Includes nationwide commercial banks (KB Kookmin Bank, Shinhan Bank, Woori Bank, Hana Bank, Standard Chartered Bank Korea, Citibank Korea), regional banks (Kyongnam Bank, Kwangju Bank, Daegu Bank, Busan Bank, Jeonbuk Bank, Jeju Bank), digital banks (K Bank, Kakao Bank, Toss Bank), and specialized banks established by the government (Nonghyup Bank, Suhyup Bank, Industrial Bank of Korea, Korea Development Bank, Export-Import Bank of Korea). Foreign bank branches were excluded.
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Leading banks South Korea FY 2023, by number of employees
In 2023, KB Kookmin Bank had approximately **** thousand employees in total, followed by Nonghyup Bank with around **** thousand employees. The total number of employees of domestic banks in South Korea that year amounted to about thousand.
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