Hanwha Life Insurance Co., Ltd. () is a life insurance company in
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
. It is part of the
Hanwha Group
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Hanwha Life Insurance is South Korea's second largest life insurance company with assets of 81 trillion won as of November 2013. It employs 28,000 financial planners and other employees. As of January 2014, it operates seven local headquarters, 65 regional offices and 605 branches.
History
Founded on September 9, 1946 as Korea Life Insurance, Hanwha Life Insurance Co., Ltd. is based in
Hanwha Finance Center 63 in
Yeouido
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, a landmark building of
Seoul
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. Korea Life Insurance changed its name to Hanwha Life Insurance in October 2012.
Products
Hanwha Life Insurance's main products include Whole Life Insurance and Critical Illness Insurance; savings-type insurance, including Annuity; and others. In addition, Hanwha Life Insurance serves individual asset management through trust commodities. It also sells retirement pension, accident and health insurance and group insurance to companies, and has sales channels including individual agents, Bancassurance through agencies of banks, and an internet sales channel, Onsure.
Culture
Hanwha Life Insurance has an esports team,
Hanwha Life Esports
Hanwha Life Esports (HLE) is a South Korean esports organization based in Seoul, owned by Hanwha Life Insurance. It has teams competing in ''League of Legends'' and '' Kart Rider'', with the former competing in the LCK, South Korea's top level p ...
, that competes in
''League of Legends'' Champions Korea.
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Daehan Life Insurance
Insurance companies of South Korea
Financial services companies established in 1946
Companies listed on the Korea Exchange
Yeongdeungpo District
Companies based in Seoul
1946 establishments in Korea
Life insurance companies