Hanwha Life Insurance Co., Ltd. () is a life insurance company in

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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

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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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* {{Authority control 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