2024.03.05
Hana Bank offers mobile financial certificates in 16 languages
By Anna J. Park. The Korea Times - Aiming to offer differentiated services
for various foreign communities in Korea, Hana Bank has begun issuing mobile
financial certificates in 16 languages through its overseas
remittance-exclusive mobile app HanaEZ, the bank announced on Monday.
The bank said it is the first time for a
domestic bank to provide support for 16 different languages for the issuance of
financial certificates. The new service targets to enhance transactional
convenience for foreign nationals living in Korea, while positioning itself as
a leading bank in satisfying foreign communities' unique needs in their
everyday lives.
According to the bank, the Hana
Certification is a private financial certificate that earned acknowledgement
from the Ministry of Science and ICT, boasting high levels of security and
technology.
The certificate not only grants financial
transactions by users, but also allows various non-face-to-face authentication
tasks required at over 170 institutions, including the National Tax Service and
the National Health Insurance Service.
Thanks to the multilingual support
service, foreign nationals residing in Korea can easily get Hana Certification
issued at the HanaEZ app without facing a language barrier.
Furthermore, Hana Bank said it is the
first among domestic banks to allow foreign customers who have been using only
their passport numbers for financial transactions to update their alien
registration card numbers, once they obtain a registration card for stays
exceeding 90 days, through the app without the need to visit an offline branch.
"Through the multilingual issuance
support for Hana Certification and the online change service for foreigner
identification numbers, we expect to increase foreign customers' benefits and
financial convenience," an official from Hana Bank said.
Source: https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/biz/2024/03/126_369970.html?utm_source=nans