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| This promotional image shows Hana Grand Hall, a wedding venue offered by Hana Financial Group. Courtesy of Hana Financial Group |
By Yoon Ja-young
Hana Financial Group will renovate parts of its buildings around the country as wedding venues, as part of its initiative to help lift the country's falling birthrate. The venues will be offered for free.
Hana announced on Wednesday that it started the Hana Grand Hall project, under which six of the group's buildings around the country are to be renovated to include a wedding venue.
It is part of the group's 2023 HANA Lifecycle Support scheme, which aims at tackling the low birthrate problem and expanding the culture of mutual growth in the finance industry.
For a start, Hana Grand Hall Myeongdong, located on the fourth floor of the group's building in Myeong-dong, downtown Seoul, will be offered as a wedding venue for free. Applications will open on May 15 through the bank's mobile app Hana 1Q. Located in downtown Seoul, the site boasts good connections to public transportation as well as a spacious parking lot. Unlike other ordinary commercial wedding halls, it accommodates only one wedding a day on Saturday and Sunday.
Currently, it is open to firefighters, small merchants, multicultural families and single moms or dads. Hana plans to expand it gradually to benefit more people. Starting with Myeong-dong, more wedding halls are scheduled to open in its buildings in Yeouido in Seoul, Incheon, Daejeon, Gwangju and Busan this year.
"We launched the free wedding venue program as an affirmative and effective measure to tackle the low birth rate problem and induce sustainable growth in society ― which are major social agendas," Hana Financial Group Chairman Ham Young-joo said. "We will spare no efforts to fulfill our social responsibility and actively cope with social problems."
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