- CEO
- Min-Young Jang
- Full Time Employees
- 14,037
- Sector
- Finance
- Industry
- Regional banks
- Address
- 79, Eulji-ro Seoul SL South Korea 04541
- IPO Date
- Dec 24, 2003
- Business
- Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK), a state-owned policy bank founded in 1961 and headquartered in Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea, specializes in providing development finance and comprehensive banking services to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) domestically and internationally. The bank offers a wide array of core products and services, including deposit accounts such as money market, deferred, installment, and mixed deposits; trust services encompassing annuities and estate trusts; lending solutions like equipment loans, business transaction loans, corporate loans, and strategic financing; foreign exchange and trade finance including letters of credit and remittances; credit facilities for individuals and corporates; credit cards; insurance products; investment banking; capital markets activities; electronic banking via smartphone apps and PC security services; retirement pensions; B2B payment solutions; and specialized SME support such as bill discounting, guarantees, acceptances, and project financing. IBK operates through over 600 domestic branches and maintains an international network with subsidiaries in China and Indonesia, branches across Asia and Europe, and representative offices globally, targeting SMEs in manufacturing, technology, eco-friendly industries, and digital transformation sectors.
In recent developments, IBK signed a memorandum of understanding with Hungary's Hungarian Development Bank in October 2025 to enhance SME financing and bilateral knowledge exchange, following partnerships with Germany's Commerzbank in 2025, Finland's Finnvera in 2024, and France's Bpifrance in 2023. The bank launched the IBK-Kiwoom Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Jump-Up Private Investment Partnership fund in October 2025, committing 170 billion KRW alongside Kiwoom Private Equity to invest in future growth areas like manufacturing and eco-friendly sectors through 2030. In September 2025, IBK agreed with the Korea Technology Finance Corporation to provide 400 billion KRW in financing for AI and defense industries; it also plans to establish a wholly-owned subsidiary in Vietnam and received final approval for a subsidiary in Poland after preliminary licensing in November 2024.
IBK continues to expand startup support, incubating innovative ventures with over 2 trillion KRW in financial backing by 2024, launching IBK Changgong acceleration programs including Silicon Valley desks, and allocating 2.5 trillion KRW in venture capital for 2025; it also introduced a 2 trillion KRW special program for startup facility investments in July 2025 and won recognition for its mobile banking app in early 2025.