“Half of bank users are having accounts with KB bank(55.3%) or NH(52.8%)”
¡ Customers use 2~3 banks in general (average 2.9 banks)
- Only 17% use 1 bank. Users of 4 or more banks are 29.9%
- 40’s and the higher income tend to use more banks, but no significant difference found
¡ Banks with the most customers are KB bank(55.3%), NH(52.8%)
- Followed by Woori bank(33.6%), Shinhan bank(31.4%), Hana bank(15.6%), and IBK bank(14.6%)
- More than 60% of Seoul/Gyunggi area customers use KB bank, while more than 70% of all area except Seoul/Gyunggi and Youngnam area customers use NH
¡ Half of bank users choose their primary bank (single answer) as NH(24.4%), KB bank(24.2%)
- Among each bank users, NH has relatively higher *customer concentration rate than KB bank
(* customer concentration rate : portion of primary customers among each bank users)
¡ Using a certain bank as a primary account is majorly because of habitual reason rather than product/service difference
- Reasons for choosing a primary bank include ‘used to use the bank for long time’, ‘close to house/work’, ‘wage transfer’, or ‘a lot of branches’ rather than ‘product/service preference’
- KB bank shows its strengths on ‘security/reliability’, while Woori bank and SC first bank are relatively strong at ‘charge/fee’, ‘Internet banking’