In North Korea, they were soon merged into the central bank within the country's monobank system.
[7]: 43 Its headquarters at 14 Namdaemunro in Seoul was destroyed by fire, and eventually replaced with a new building in December 1966.
[8] It was again privatized in 1983,[9]: 161 as part of the limited financial liberalization effort undertaken by then-president Chun Doo-hwan.
[11]: 174 In December 1998, it announced its merger with two other financial institutions, Kangwon Bank [ko] (est.
1970) and Hyundai Merchant Bank, with simultaneous public recapitalization which resulted in the Korean government owning 90 percent of the merged entity's equity capital.