Gwangju Bank Launches 'KIA Tigers Championship Support Savings and Deposit' Sales Event

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Bank (President Song Jong-wook) announced on the 29th that it will conduct an event along with the sale of the ‘KIA Tigers Victory Wish Savings and Deposit’ until July 31, in line with the opening of the 2020 professional baseball season.

The ‘KIA Tigers Victory Wish Savings and Deposit,’ which wishes for the KIA Tigers’ V12 championship, is sold every year during the professional baseball season with enthusiastic interest from baseball fans.

The ‘KIA Tigers Victory Wish Deposit’ allows one account per person with a subscription amount ranging from 5 million KRW to a maximum of 50 million KRW. It offers various preferential interest rates depending on the KIA Tigers’ professional baseball performance, providing up to an additional 0.5% preferential interest rate, allowing for a maximum annual interest rate of 1.7%.

The conditions for the preferential interest rates are ▲0.1%p if the KIA Tigers produce a pitcher with 20 wins in the regular league ▲0.2%p for advancing to the postseason ▲0.2%p for winning the Korean Series.

The ‘KIA Tigers Victory Wish Installment Savings’ is a fixed installment product with monthly subscriptions from 100,000 KRW up to 1 million KRW. It offers a basic interest rate of 1.3% plus the same preferential interest conditions as the deposit (up to 0.5%p). Additionally, it provides an event preferential interest rate of up to 0.9%p to add fun to cheering, allowing for a maximum annual interest rate of 2.7%.

The event preferential interest rate conditions are ▲0.01%p per win exceeding 51 wins in the KIA Tigers’ regular season, up to a maximum of 0.4%p ▲0.1%p if the team steals 90 or more bases in the regular season ▲0.05%p per transaction up to a maximum of 0.4%p when using Gwangju Bank’s open banking service to transfer money from another bank account in the user’s name to their Gwangju Bank deposit account with the deposit description ‘KIA Victory’ on days when the KIA Tigers win a regular season game.

Also, Gwangju Bank will hold a variety of events to commemorate the opening of the 2020 professional baseball season and to wish for the KIA Tigers’ victory.

The ‘2020 Professional Baseball No-Audience Certification Shot Event,’ held from the 5th to the 10th of next month, is an event to ease the disappointment of not being able to watch the game live at the stadium.

By taking a certification shot including the Gwangju Bank logo while watching the KIA Tigers game broadcast on TV and uploading it to a personal Instagram account (mandatory hashtags #GwangjuBank #NoAudienceCertificationShot), 100 people will be selected by lottery to receive official KIA Tigers cheering items, sports towels.

The winners will be announced on the 13th of next month.

In the case of games with spectators, various events will be held such as ▲a lottery for K9 seats (8 seats for 2 people) at Kia Champions Field for customers holding the KIA Tigers Victory Wish Savings and Deposit ▲15% discount coupons for the KIA Tigers Shop (first 20,000 people) ▲distribution of 30,000 copies of the 2020 Limited KIA Tigers deposit passbook containing the KIA Tigers home game schedule ▲and a 5% discount when paying at the KIA Tigers Shop on the first floor of Champions Field with a Gwangju Card.

Park Ki-won, Head of Sales Planning at Gwangju Bank, said, “We sincerely thank customers and KIA Tigers fans who have shown great interest and love for the ‘KIA Tigers Victory Wish Savings and Deposit’ every season,” adding, “As the representative bank of Gwangju and Jeonnam, we will continue to strive to introduce various products and events that contain our region’s stories so that local residents can empathize and smile together.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.