Kiwoom Securities Co., Ltd.

Based in Seoul, Korea, and founded in 2000, Kiwoom Securities Co. , Ltd. is a financial investment service company. A parent company is Daou Tech.

, INC. , also known as DaouKiwoom Group, who founded Kiwoom Securities Co. , Ltd. by the name of Kiwoom.

com Securities; however, it changed its name to the current name in 2007. Additionally, in 2004, the firm was listed in the KOSDAQ market through IPO, and it transited to KOSPI market in 2009. Since the foundation of the firm, it expanded its business by acquiring and establishing the following subsidiaries: Kiwoom Investments in 2003; Kiwoom Asset Management in 2010; Kiwoom Securities Indonesia in 2011; Kiwoom Savings Bank and Kiwoom Yes Savings Bank in 2013; Kiwoom Private Equity in 2017; Kiwoom Capital in 2018; and Kiwoom Financial & Investment (F&I) in 2020. Furthermore, in 2014, Woori Asset Management was acquired by the firm and merged into Kiwoom Asset Management.

A current CEO of the firm is Hyun Soon Hwang, who is also a director of Kiwoom Investment. As of December 2021, the firm has 948 employees. Kiwoom Securities Co. , Ltd.

operates five main business segments: retail business that offers a trading system called ‘HERO S’ and ‘HERO’, investment information through ‘Channel K’ and ‘How to Stock’, and remoted-control service by acquiring CQM certification; investment banking that includes Equity Capital Market (EQM) and Debt Capital Market (DCM); wholesale business that consists of institutional sales and bond sales; principal investment that includes equity investment and alternative investment; and research centre that investigates differentiated investment ideas through various reports. In the fiscal year of 2020, Kiwoom Securities Co. , Ltd. generated KRW 4.

5 trillion in operating revenue, and KRW 989 billion in operating income.