Woori Financial Group held a 2026 group management strategy workshop and announced three core strategies: productive and inclusive finance, an organisation-wide artificial intelligence transformation (AX) and stronger synergies as a comprehensive financial group, it said on Saturday.

The workshop, held on Jan. 16 at the group's Vision Hall at its headquarters in Hoehyeon-dong, Seoul, drew about 400 people including heads of group affiliates and all executives, bank division and department heads, and top-performing group employees.

Lim Jong-ryong, chairman of Woori Financial Holdings, described the past three years as the first act, saying the group achieved full privatisation, improved its capital ratio and completed its development into a comprehensive financial group. He said this year should be the starting point of a full-fledged second act and presented a core keyword as competitiveness, calling on all affiliates to focus on securing competitiveness across the group.

Lim put strengthening execution of productive and inclusive finance at the forefront. He also presented an organisation-wide AX and said, "As AX is a benchmark that determines the landscape of finance, we must take root an AI-centred management system across the group with the mindset that 'we are an AI company.'"

Based on its group AX master plan, Woori Financial plans to implement 344 use cases by next year, including 200 at the bank and 144 at non-bank units. It will also accelerate the establishment of an AI-based management system and the transformation of work processes.

It also aims to expand the share of non-bank profit to 20 percent through synergies among affiliates.