101 Top Seoul Financial Services Companies and Startups

July 20, 2022

This article showcases our top picks for the best Seoul 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 Seoul Financial Services Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Mirae Asset Global Investments

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

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Korbit

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Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services.

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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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Klaytn

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

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CHAI

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CHAI Provides Financial Services.

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MBK Partners

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MBK Partners is a leading North Asia private equity firm, owned and operated by Asians.

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Anchor Protocol

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Anchor Protocol is a savings platform that provides crypto natives, fintech companies, and investors a stable, high interest rate finance.

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Bithumb

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Bithumb is a South Korea-based cryptocurrency exchange platform.

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PeopleFund

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

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League of Traders

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League of Traders is a application software that provides trading, social, assets across exchange, and financial solutions.

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Primer

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Startup Accelerator in Korea from Jan 2010

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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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WireBarley

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A cross-border payment platform with a strong foothold in Asia that entered U.S & Canada for the 1st time among Korean remittance companies.

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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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Kasa

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Kasa is a financial service platform that allows people to invest in commercial real estate.

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Korea Credit Data

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Korea Credit Data (KCD) provides business management services to 1.2 million SMBs in Korea.

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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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Terra

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

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VegaX Holdings

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VegaX Holdings is a cryptocurrency index platform providing actionable crypto-indexes & index-based asset management products for investors.

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Quotabook

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Quotabook is a company that specializes in equity management.

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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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Coinone

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

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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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Korea Investment Partners

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Korea Investment Partners is a leading venture capital & private equity firm based in Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.

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AIZEN Global

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

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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.

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Lendit

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#1 online lending marketplace for unsecured personal loans in Korea

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Ascensive Assets

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Ascensive Asset is a private investment firm focusing solely on digital assets industry

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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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HonestFund

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Fintech, Marketplace Lending, Alternative Investment

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KB Investment

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KB Investment is one of Korea’s leading investment firms.

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Bankware Global

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Bankware Global is a company specialising in enterprise software for banks and financial services, with its headquarters in Seoul

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Quantec

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Quantec provides individual optimized portfolio provision services through discretionary financial investment with Robo-Advisor technology.

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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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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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Baekdu Technologies

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Baekdu Technologies is a technology company that focuses specifically on quantitative investment of DeFi assets

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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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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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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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Magna Investment

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

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Hahn & Co

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A South Korean private equity firm

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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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KEB Hana Bank

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KEB Hana Bank provides commercial banking services.

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NFTBank.ai

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The ultimate hub of NFT finance, portfolio management & analytics

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EXIMBAY

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Eximbay is a major payment service provider with various payment methods in South Korea.

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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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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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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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SBI Investment Korea

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Korea Technology Investment Corporation is a venture capital and private equity firm.

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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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DAOL Investment & Securities

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

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Atinum Investment

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Atinum Investment is a principal investment firm.

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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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JK Marshall Mercantile

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JK Marshall Mercantile is a privately-owned and independent investment advisory enterprise.

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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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KB Kookmin Card

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Korea’s largest credit card company

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Mirae Asset Daewoo

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South Korea’s top securities firm.

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Daishin Securities

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Daishin Securities specializes in the financial investment business.

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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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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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Yellowdog

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Yellowdog invests in startups that will achieve growth by approaching various environmental and social problems.

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100&100 Venture Capital

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100&100 Venture Capital focuses on venture projects about the blockchain tech, cryptocurrency, and related assets.

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Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance

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Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance carries out social safety nets throughout the entire non-life insurance business.

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KG Inisys

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No 1 online payment gateway in Korea. IPO KOSDAQ in 2002 (035600)

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Bitribe

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Bitribe is a cryptocurrency trading platform for digital currency aggregation transactions.

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Delio

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Delio is global crypto finance service provider based in Seoul, South Korea.

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Sky Lake Investment

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SkyLake Investment Co. (rSkyLake, below), founded in October 2006, is an alternative asset management firm that manages private equity.

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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

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Global Money Express

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Financial Services based on Mobile App

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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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NH Bank

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NH Bank provides foreign exchange, transfer money, credit card, and banking services.

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Hana Card

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Electronic Components

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bitHolla

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Financial cryptocurrency trading engine

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Alpha Asset Management

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Alpha Asset Management specializes in real estate investments, private equity, risk planning, compliance, and funding services.

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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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Korea Credit Information Services

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Korea Credit Information Services provides credit information services.

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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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Gowid

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Gowid is a fintech company that provides corporate credit cards, instalments, loans and B2B financial services for start-ups.

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Spendit

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Spendit is a B2B fintech company in Seoul, Korea.

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Aicel Technologies

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Aicel Technologies provides unique alpha capturing datasets for corporates and the financial sectors to accelerate business opportunities.

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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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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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Rich & Co

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Rich & Co is a financial consulting firm that specializes in insurance products, asset management, and corporate financing services.

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Korea Trade Insurance Corporation

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Korea Trade Insurance Corporation

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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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SMBC

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SMBC provides consulting services in the area of corporate fund, policy fund, corporate diagnosis, financial, and management certification.

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JT Chinae Savings Bank

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JT Chinae Savings Bank is providing internet banking and financial consultancy services.

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Pay2Pay

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Pay2Pay is a subscription platform that offers payment services.

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NONGHYUP

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NONGHYUP offers agricultural development and agriculture financial services.

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FLYBIT

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FLYBIT is a crypto currency exchange platform.

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CrePASS Solutions

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Peer-to-Peer Financial Integration Platform

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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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Lotte Non-Life Insurance Company

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Lotte provides auto, fire, marine, long-term casualty and property, pension, and retirement insurance products.

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FnGuide

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FnGuide is a provider of financial information services.

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Prime Asset

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Prime Asset is an insurance products company.

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Lotte Card

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Lotte Card is a credit card distribution company.

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Daewoo Securities

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Daewoo Securities is the largest stock brokerage and investment banking firm.

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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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Shinhan Card

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Shinhan Card, an affiliate of Shinhan Financial Group, is the No.1 card issuer in South Korea.

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BC Card

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BC Card is a global payment processing services provider.

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