Gwangju Bank CEO Ko Byungil: "Promoting Corporate Loan Growth and Enhancing App Competitiveness"

2025 Second-Half Management Strategy Meeting Held
"Strengthening Business Foundation Through Agile Response to External Environment"

Gwangju Bank announced that it held its 2025 second-half management strategy meeting at Aurum Campus in Jeongeup, Jeonbuk, on July 25. This meeting was organized to review the achievements of the first half of the year and to specify the management direction for the second half.

For the second half of the year, Gwangju Bank presented balanced growth in KRW-denominated loans, efficient KRW-denominated funding, stabilization of asset soundness, and internal growth through proactive future response as its management directions.

The main detailed strategies to achieve these goals include corporate loan rebalancing for strategic asset allocation, improving profitability by increasing core deposits, maintaining a constant asset soundness management system, strengthening the competitiveness of GwangjuWaBank, and expanding specialized channels for foreigners and wealth management (WM).

At the meeting, Gwangju Bank CEO Ko Byungil stated, "Due to the deterioration of the global trade environment and sluggish domestic demand, our economy is facing the risk of growth in the zero percent range. In addition, the difficulties of the real economy are deepening day by day, as shown by the increase in delinquencies and closures among self-employed individuals." He emphasized, "In this situation, the financial sector must prepare more active countermeasures." He added, "We must respond swiftly to the turbulent changes in the external environment, such as politics, real estate, and financial policies. By strengthening our business foundation based on strategic asset management and qualitative growth, we need to prepare for Gwangju Bank to take another leap forward."