Hana opens Cheongna headquarters in Incheon, completes group's 'financial town'

Hana Financial Group opened its new headquarters in Cheongna International City, Incheon, completing the final stage of its “financial town” and bringing together its financial and IT operations under one roof.

The opening ceremony for the Cheongna Headquarters on Friday came 15 years after the group first launched the project to establish a financial hub in the city. The town now comprises three buildings: an integrated data center that opened in 2017; Hana Global Campus, which serves as a training center for developing talent and fostering global networks and opened in 2019; and the newly opened headquarters.

“The relocation to the Cheongna Headquarters will go beyond simply moving our offices and serve as an opportunity to accelerate a major transformation in the way we work and our corporate culture,” Hana Financial Group Chairman Ham Young-joo said. “We will complete a transformation of finance that encompasses all stakeholders, including customers, local communities and employees, and build the next 100 years of the group’s history.”

The Incheon mayor also celebrated the relocation, expressing the headquarters' role in supporting small businesses.

“We will work together to foster industries in which finance, data and AI converge in Cheongna while ensuring that the benefits extend to local small- and mid-sized businesses and small merchants,” said Incheon Mayor Park Chan-dae, who attended the opening ceremony of the headquarters on Friday.

“I hope that Incheon and Hana Financial Group can work together to build 100 years of partnership,” he added. “The opening of the Cheongna Headquarters marks the culmination of the group’s long-term effort to build a financial town and the start of a major transformation to align the capabilities of all Hana affiliates and employees toward a single direction,” said Hana Financial Group Chairman Ham Young-joo, who also attended the event.

“Hana will closely connect finance with Incheon’s local economy, future industries and investment policies as a regional financial partner to support the city’s economic growth.” 

The new hub spans seven basement levels and 15 floors above ground, with a total floor area of about 128,000 square meters (1.38 million square feet).

Employees began moving into the new headquarters in September. Including employees at the integrated data center, the financial town will house about 4,000 finance and IT workers across the group’s 10 affiliates, including its bank, securities and card units.

Hana said that it plans to accelerate its digital transformation, including its AI transformation, while increasing efforts to develop new financial services and future growth engines by combining finance and technology.

With collaboration as a core value of the new office, Hana has designed each floor as an open, horizontal space, removing physical barriers between departments, divisions and affiliates. The building also features a “sky park” on the roof and a range of employee amenities, such as a fitness center and massage station.

Hana also plans to open parts of the headquarters, including its outdoor terraces and ramp staircase running through the building, to the public, turning the site into a space that connects the group with the Incheon community.

The completion of Hana’s financial town in Cheongna is closely tied to Chairman Ham’s efforts to reshape the group’s business portfolio and broaden its growth engines beyond traditional bank-centered finance to include productive finance, AI and digital assets.

Hana plans to expand its supply of productive finance — directing liquidity toward research and development, startups and the modernization of industrial facilities rather than speculative real estate or cryptocurrency markets — to 17.8 trillion won ($13.24 billion) this year. The funds will be channeled into advanced infrastructure and AI, key high-tech industries and export supply chains.

BY JIN MIN-JI [[email protected]]