Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;


           Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain
           Officers.




(d)    Election of Directors

On November 15, 2021, Hanmi Financial Corporation (the "Company"), a Delaware corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Hanmi Bank (the "Bank"), announced that the Boards of Directors of the Company and Bank had appointed Gloria J. Lee to the Board of Directors of Company and Bank.

Ms. Lee has served as the Client Relations Partner for Rutan & Tucker, LLP, a full-service law firm in California since 2014. She is the Chair of the firm's Business Development Committee and is responsible for the strategic growth of business development opportunities and the implementation of client relationship initiatives for the firm. Before becoming the firm's Client Relations Partner, Ms. Lee was a transactional real estate attorney from March 2011 through 2013 focused on the financing and development of commercial and residential properties.

In April 2020, Ms. Lee co-founded Kwell Laboratories LLC, which is the exclusive United States distributor and clinical trial sponsor for a leading South Korean manufacturer of rapid diagnostic kits.

Ms. Lee serves on numerous non-profit boards, including the Board of Council of Korean Americans. She recently served on the Board of the UC Berkeley Law School Alumni Association and is a past Executive Board member of Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles and a past President of the Orange County Asian American Bar Association.

In 2018, Ms. Lee was awarded the California National Minority Council Emerging Diversity Leader Award for her contributions promoting diversity within the legal profession and in 2017 was selected by the California Diversity Council as one of Southern California's Most Powerful and Influential Women.

Ms. Lee is a received her B.A. and M.A., with distinction, from Stanford University and received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

Ms. Lee was appointed to the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and the Compensation and Human Resources Committee of the Company.

There are no arrangements or understandings between Ms. Lee and any other persons pursuant to which she was selected as a director. There are no family relationships between Ms. Lee and any director, executive officer or any person nominated or chosen by the Company to become a director or executive officer. No information is required to be disclosed with respect to Ms. Lee pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

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