"Conduct Religious Activities Remotely" Woori Bank Launches 'Online Offering Service'

Online Worship and Easy Offering via Smartphone

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyo-jin] Woori Bank announced on the 17th that it has launched an ‘Online Offering Service’ to support non-face-to-face religious activities for the prevention of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).

The newly launched service was introduced focusing on customer accessibility and convenience to improve the inconvenience of non-face-to-face offerings through simple account transfers. In particular, even church members who are not familiar with using smartphones can easily make offerings without installing an application (app), as it is available on the church website and the app for church members. In addition, it can be directly connected via SMS text messages or social network service (SNS) messengers, and is easily accessible through church bulletins, notice boards, and QR code scanning methods.

Moreover, the withdrawal account for offerings can use all bank accounts by utilizing the Financial Services Commission’s Open Banking, not only Woori Bank accounts, and offerings can be made simply by entering a 6-digit PIN number. Just like making offerings offline, it is possible to convey information such as the type of offering, prayer requests, and church member information.

Woori Bank provides a free fund management service (WIN-CMS) for church administrators, which can be used to check offering details, manage church member information, and manage accounts of all banks the church is transacting with. Additionally, by linking church membership information and offering transaction data, the processing of year-end tax settlement for donations can be handled more conveniently.

A Woori Bank official said, “We developed a convenient service for church members to deliver offerings to support non-face-to-face religious activities,” and added, “We plan to gradually expand the service to other religions and social donation organizations.”

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