101 Top South Korean Financial Services Companies and Startups

October 14, 2021

This article showcases our top picks for the best South Korean based Financial Services companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Financial Services industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top South Korean Financial Services Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Toss

Toss

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Toss is a mobile finance platform used to simplify the payment procedure.

Terra

Terra

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Terra is a price-stable cryptocurrency designed for mass adoption.

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Mirae Asset Global Investments

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Mirae Asset Global Investments is a global asset manager providing innovative investment solutions to clients worldwide.

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Dunamu

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Dunamu provides a wide range of innovative services with a focus on fintech and blockchain.

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Kakaobank

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Kakaobank offers digital banking, loans, and financial services.

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Kakao Pay

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Kakao Pay allows over-counter payments, peer-to-peer transactions, bill payment, web banking, and more.

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Bithumb

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Bithumb is a South Korea-based cryptocurrency exchange platform.

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KB Financial Group

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KB Financial Group is a Korea-based holding company engaged in the management of its subsidiaries.

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Klaytn

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Klaytn is an enterprise-grade, service-centric platform that brings user-friendly blockchain experience.

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PeopleFund

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PeopleFund is Korea’s leading digital lender focused on consumer finance.

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Coinone

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Coinone provides blockchain-related financial services including cryptocurrency exchange, asset management and trading matching engines.

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Doomoolmori

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Doomoolmori provides AI wealth management and data analytics solutions to financial institutions, and robo-advisory services to end users.

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DAYLI Financial Group

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A leading Fintech company in Asia providing data tech solutions, digital wealth management, and lead-generation services

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Quotabook

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Quotabook is a company that specializes in equity management.

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Korea Credit Data

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Korea Credit Data provides business management software to small and medium-sized businesses.

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HonestFund

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Fintech, Marketplace Lending, Alternative Investment

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MOIN, Inc.

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MOIN is a Blockchain-based global money transfer service, which is fast, convenient, and reasonably priced, focusing on Asia countries.

AIZEN Global

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Redesigning Digital Banking with AI Lending Platform ‘CreditConnect’, powered by proprietary AutoML platform ABACUS

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Tera Funding

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Tera Funding is a real estate investment firm in Seoul, South Korea.

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WireBarley

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WireBarley is a fin-tech company that provides a platform for online money transfer.

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TESSA

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Alternative investment platform for the purchase, sale and trade of fractionalized ownership interests in investment-grade blue-chip artwork

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Uberple

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Uberple is building real-time statistical computing engine to democratize investment research.

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Lendit

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#1 online lending marketplace for unsecured personal loans in Korea

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Quantec

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Quantec provides an asset management platform for everyone on a daily possibility.

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AIM (Automated Investment Management)

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AIM is an online platform that allows its users to make trades and investments via smartphone.

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Fin2B

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Fin2B is providing financial solutions for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) through their platform centering on the Supply Chain Finance.

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Payvil

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Payvil is an app to use AliPay in Korea.

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Won

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Won provides people to use their credit cards more easily on the mobile.

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QARA Soft

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Fintech start-up that provides online investment advisory and asset management services using deep-learning technology.

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JB Financial Group

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JB Financial Group is one of the retail finance groups in South Korea and offers a variety of financial services to its customers.

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Superbly

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Superbly provides the payment authentication system that utilizes IT Fin Tech including authentication, information security and payment.

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STIC Investment

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STIC Investments is a private equity firm that invests in management buy-outs, acquisitions, restructuring other corporate situations.

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NH Investment & Securities

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NH Investment & Securities engages in wealth management, investment banking, trading, and equity sales businesses.

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NFTBank.ai

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The ultimate hub of NFT finance, portfolio management & analytics

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KT investment Inc.

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KT Investment Inc. is a venture capital arm of KT Corporation. The firm was founded in 2015 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

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IGIS Asset Management

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IGIS Asset management is an independent global real estate investment company.

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GREIT

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GREIT, through its mobile app WEYS, provides the foreign exchange platform in Korea.

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Anchor Equity Partners

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Anchor Equity Partners is a private equity firm specializing in middle market and consolidation investments.

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Fount

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Fount Inc. Is an asset management Robo-Advisor startup founded in 2015.

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N-Cash

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N-Cash is a tech firm that powers micro-transactions and virtual economies.

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Atinum Investment

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Atinum Investment is a principal investment firm.

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Beyond Finance

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Beyond Finance is a decentralized platform for creating and trading synthetic financial products.

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TheVentures

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TheVentures is a company-building company and a venture capital firm that specializes in providing seed-stage funding to tech companies.

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Banksalad

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Banksalad is a fintech company that develops financial applications.

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Shinhan Capital

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Shinhan Capital is a credit-specialized company offering corporate finance services for its clients.

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VegaX Holdings

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VegaX Holdings is the BlackRock of Crypto Assets: One-stop Access to Secure Crypto Strategies & Indexes

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Industrial Bank of Korea

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Industrial Bank of Korea is an industrial bank company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea

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Hana Financial Investment

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Hana Financial Investment Company Limited offers brokerage, securities dealing, underwriting, mutual funds, and online trading services

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TBT

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TBT utilizes its industry knowledge and experience to help companies build services and products that can make the world a better place.

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Samsung Venture Investment

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Samsung Venture Investment is plays the role of driving the discovery and development of new businesses and technologies.

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Ascendo Ventures LLC

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Ascendo Ventures invests in top Korean and global startups with a focus on supporting their growth via cross-border business development

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Finda

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Finda is an online financial comparison platform across various financial products.

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Bitsonic

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Bitsonic is a Korean cryptocurrency focused on profit sharing virtual currency exchange.

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FLYBIT

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FLYBIT is a crypto currency exchange platform.

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WaveBridge

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Wavebridge is a fintech startup that provides a digital asset management platform through various financial services.

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KEB Hana Bank

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KEB Hana Bank provides commercial banking services.

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KSNET

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KSNET operates as a value-added network service provider for credit card and banking transaction processing in South Korea.

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NHN Investment

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NHN Investment is a specialized investment organization providing investments, loans, and management as well as technological guidance to

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KB Kookmin Card

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Korea’s largest credit card company

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Naver Financial Corp.

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Naver Financial Corp. operates as a financial platform.

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Flow Finance

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Flow Finance provides a cryptocurrency financial platform.

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BOMAPP

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Bomapp is a Seoul-based insurtech startup that offers fully digital insurance experience to consumers.

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FinShot

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FinShot provides financial services platform.

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Smallticket

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Digital insurance brokerage platform that provides with the customized policies and services for micro-segmented groups

StyleShare

bitHolla

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Best white-label exchange provider that helps businesses to start their own cryptocurrency exchange with their own coins and tokens in minutes

Terra

Hahn & Co

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A South Korean private equity firm

Terra

Korea Investment Management

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Korea Investment Management is an asset management company.

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Woori Bank

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Woori Bank takes the lead in developing Korea’s wealth and economy.

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PayLetter

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PayLetter is a provider of online billing and payment solutions in North America, Europe, and Asia.

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Huobi Korea

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Huobi Korea is a digital asset exchange platform.

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Kay Bank

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Kbank is the first digital-only bank in South Korea.

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AtMarket

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AtMarket is an online platform that enables users to compare the prices of financial products such as insurance schemes and loans.

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SK Securities

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SK Securities is a South Korea-based financial service provider that specializes in the securities market.

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VI Asset Management Korea

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VI AMC offers investors-friendly funds with traditional asset, derivatives, real estate, alternative investments, and multi-strategy etc.

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Magna Investment

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Magna Investment is a a Venture Capital / Accelerator / Private Equity Manager.

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December & Company

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December & Company offers customized asset management services to a broad population.

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Presto

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Presto is a data-driven quantitative analysis and automated trading systems provider.

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KONA I CO

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KONA I CO is a leading smart card solution provider headquartered in South Korea.

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KTB Investment & Securities

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KTB Investment & Securities provides financial services for individual clients, institutional clients, and corporate clients.

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Woori Financial Group

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Woori Financial Group is a Seoul-based banking and financial services holdings company.

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Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings

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Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings operates as an investment and robotics company.

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UNO Investment

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UNO Investment is an investment management and financial service provider company.

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TONGYANG Systems

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TONGYANG Systems is an IT finance solution company.

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CodeChain

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CodeChain is a blockchain technology company that creates and enables smarter asset management systems.

Everspin

Argos KYC

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Argos KYC is a KYC company allows businesses to measures combating identity theft, money laundering, and terrorist financing.

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Suhyup Bank

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Suhyup Bank is a provider of banking and financial services.

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Korea Exchange

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The KRX, which aims to be a ‘World-Class Premier Exchange’, is making concerted efforts to establish an orderly capital market and achieve

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Q Capital Partners

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Q Capital Partners is a Korean company engaged in venture investment business and financial services.

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BPLUS

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BPLUS is an impact investment open platform that connects social projects and individual investors.

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Seoul Guarantee Insurance

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Seoul Guarantee Insurance provides insurance services.

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POSCO CAPITAL

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POSCO Capital offers financial services.

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Bank of Korea

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Bank of Korea is a central bank offering banking and financial services in Korea.

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The Export-Import Bank of Korea

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The Export-Import Bank of Korea is a provider of export credit and guarantee programs to support Korean enterprises conducting overseas.

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Global Asset Management Seoul Korea

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Global Asset Management was founded on the principals of providing excellence in customer service and wealth management.

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Cross Remittance

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Cross is a payments service that introduced South Korea’s first blockchain-powered remittance service

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Emmental

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Emmental is a fintech startup that combines expertise and IT.

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Youbit

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Youbit is a digital currency exchange platform.

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VIP Research & Management

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VIP Research & Management is an investment advisory company.

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Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance

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Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance delivers property and casualty insurance products and services to businesses and individuals.

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Korea Securities Finance

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Korea Securities Finance offers securities-backed loans to financial investment companies and manages investors’ deposits.

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