“Financial accidents occur one after another at the Suhyup… The scale of the accidents is getting bigger and bigger.”

Over the past five years, the amount of accidents exceeded 20 billion won... Suhyup Bank voice phishing victim accounts increase rapidly

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Hong Guk-ki = It has been pointed out that financial accidents worth billions of won are occurring one after another at Suhyup Bank and Suhyup Mutual Finance, and that the scale is getting bigger.

According to the status data submitted by the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives by Rep. Kim Seon-kyo (People Power Party), a member of the National Assembly's Agriculture, Food, Rural Affairs, Oceans and Fisheries Committee on the 18th, the number of financial accidents that occurred in fisheries cooperative banks and fisheries cooperatives mutual finance over the past five years (2021-2025) was a total of 38 cases, and the amount reached 20.061 billion won.

Rep. Kim pointed out, “The fact that large-scale financial accidents are recurring means that the internal control system is actually not performing its role,” and added, “We need to move away from the backdoor response of belatedly resolving an accident after it occurs and come up with an active alternative that fundamentally strengthens the management and supervision system in vulnerable areas.”

In particular, at Suhyup Bank, the number of accounts used or damaged in financial fraud such as voice phishing appears to be increasing significantly every year.

The number of accounts confirmed as damaged by Suhyup Bank was 1 in 2023, 4 in 2024, 36 last year, and 85 as of September this year.

The amount of damage increased rapidly from 800,000 won in 2023, 92 million won in 2024, and 206 million won last year to 928 million won by September this year. This figure has increased more than 10 times compared to 2024.