Shareholders of Hana Financial Group have officially elected Vice Chairman and sole chairman-nominee Ham Young-joo to lead the company for the next three years. Ham has now officially replaced former chairman Kim Jung-tai, who was at the helm of the group for a decade. Ham became CEO of Hana Bank in 2015, after the bank's acquisition of Korea Exchange Bank by US private equity Lone Star was finalized in 2015.

He later stepped down as CEO of the commercial lender in 2019, after successfully merging the systems of the two separate banks. From 2016, he took on double duty as vice chairman of the bank's holding entity Hana Financial Group, mapping out the business strategy of the firm.