The Financial Services Commission announced that the 2025 Korea Fintech Week has kicked off on November 26 for three days until November 28 at aT Center in Seoul with participation from major domestic and overseas fintech businesses, financial companies, associated institutions, and foreign governments and international organizations. This year’s global fintech expo has been organized to be the largest ever in terms of scale with 99 exhibition booths and 128 businesses and organizations participating and showcasing a variety of seminars and programs. As such, visitors have shown strong interest for joining this year’s Korea Fintech Week as the volume of pre-registration (about 5,200 individuals as of 17:00 pm, Nov. 25) more than doubled from the level seen in the previous year.

The 2025 Korea Fintech Week started out with opening events featuring speeches by world-renowned entrepreneurs and authorities. Chairman Lee Eog-weon of the Financial Services Commission delivered a welcoming speech where he emphasized the need to promote digital innovation through AI transition in the financial industry. In this regard, FSC Chairman Lee said that the AI capacity of a country will serve as the unequivocal measure of its competitiveness from now on. With a vision to achieve a global top-three status in AI capacity, Chairman Lee said that the government is making all-out efforts to promote the AI industry. In this regard, Chairman Lee introduced plans to (a) promote large scale investments in AI and overhaul the current AI infrastructure in the financial industry, (b) foster conditions and set regulatory grounds to supply capital to fintech businesses, (c) and establish foundations for introducing innovative financial services. In addition, going beyond the simple convergence of AI technology with fintech services, Chairman Lee said that the Korean government will seek bold innovation in digital finance to fully embrace the potential of AI and facilitate the personalization of finance.

Following the opening events, the K-Fintech 30 Selection Ceremony is scheduled to be held, designating 10 promising Korean fintech businesses to the list of K-Fintech 30 for this year. Selected fintech firms will become eligible to receive financing and investment related support in the future. FSC Vice Chairman Kwon Dae-young is scheduled to participate in the K-Fintech 30 Selection Ceremony and speak on various policy plans to provide support for fintech businesses and foster its ecosystem.

Exhibition halls have been organized into (a) fintech hall, (b) finance hall, (c) global hall, and (d) collaboration hall. This year, the size of the global hall has been expanded significantly from 15 overseas organizations participating last year to 31 organizations this year.

At the fintech hall, major domestic fintech firms will showcase their innovative fintech services. At the finance hall, financial companies will demonstrate how traditional financial services get a makeover through convergence with fintech services. At the global hall, overseas unicorn fintechs will participate to showcase globally leading financial technologies. At the collaboration hall, local governments and related organizations, universities, and venture capital businesses will take part to show support for the growth of the fintech ecosystem.

Throughout the three-day event, visitors can take part in more than a dozen scheduled seminars and engage in in-depth discussions on (a) global fintech trends, (b) AI-fostered fintech models, (c) digital assets, (d) fintech investment, etc. A number of world-renowned experts and speakers are expected to join these seminars to share their expertise, while all seminar proceedings will be broadcast live through YouTube to enable access from virtually anywhere in the world.

Aside from the exhibition halls and seminars, there are other exciting hands-on AI experience programs available for visitors, such as digital T-shirt printing enabled by generative AI and AI photo booth. These events will underscore the personalization effects of AI-driven fintech services.

Throughout various locations, there will be large screen displays from which visitors can learn and find out about global fintech trends and country-by-country industry comparisons. Since the new expo site this year offers a more spacious venue compared to the previous year, it is expected that visitors can enjoy more convenience.

Visitors can enter and join the 2025 Korea Fintech Week for free of charge. For more detailed information, please visit its official website (fintechweek.or.kr/en/).

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