In 2023, Samsung Life Insurance was the leading insurance company in South Korea with gross written premiums amounting to about 25.6 trillion South Korean won. Kyobo Life Insurance and Hanwha Life Insurance followed with gross written premiums worth around 19 and 14 trillion South Korean won respectively. Samsung had held the largest market share not only in life insurance, but also in non-life insurance in 2020.
South Korea’s insurance industry
The finance and insurance industries are taking an increasingly large share of the South Korean economy, with the sector's real gross domestic product (GDP) nearly doubling over the past decade. While there are about 22 life insurers and 31 non-life insurers operating in South Korea, the country has a relatively high insurance penetration rate of about 11.1 percent, which ranks among the highest in the world.
Digital transformation
The insurance industry, which is considered one of the most conservative sectors of the domestic financial industry, is currently undergoing a digital transformation, which is often referred to as insurtech. Insurtech refers to the use of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and other technologies, with the aim of providing customers with more efficient and innovative insurance services. Although South Korea’s digital transformation of insurance is still in its infancy by international standards, insurance providers such as AIA, Heungkuk, Dongbu, Samsung, and other various insurance companies have already started applying such technologies to their products.
Leading life insurance companies in South Korea in 2023, by gross premiums written
(in trillion South Korean won)
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Financial Supervisory Service. (June 7, 2024). Leading life insurance companies in South Korea in 2023, by gross premiums written (in trillion South Korean won) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 05, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/408925/leading-life-insurance-companies-south-korea/
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Leading life insurance companies in South Korea in 2023, by gross premiums written (in trillion South Korean won) [Graph], Financial Supervisory Service, June 7, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/408925/leading-life-insurance-companies-south-korea/