The nation’s first Internet bank, K Bank, has attracted more than 100-thousand customers in just three days after its launch on Monday.
 
K Bank said that the number of its customers topped 100-thousand as of 8 a.m. Thursday and an average of 21 people have been opening bank accounts per minute since it went into service on Monday. More than 106-thousand savings accounts worth 73 billion won have been opened while more than eight-thousand loan requests worth 41 billion won have been approved. Over 91-thousand debit cards have been issued.
 
Those in their 30s account for nearly 40 percent of the Internet bank customers. Those in their 40s represent roughly 30 percent. Those in their 20s, 50s and 60s account for 16-point-nine percent, ten-point-nine percent and two percent, respectively.
 
The largest number of dealings, 31-point-nine percent, were made between 6 p.m. and midnight.
 
K Bank head Sim Sung-hoon said that his bank will focus on operating its service stably through increasing the number of employees to 200 and improving the monitoring and management of the computer system.