🔗 Kiwoom Securities: Two Pillars of Expanding Customer Touchpoints and Venture Capital Investment - 2026.08.31

Hi, it’s Dotori. The key point about Kiwoom Securities this time is the trend of broader customer touchpoints and a larger stage for fund management. With Kiwoom Point users surpassing 1 million, news followed about age-specific pension management strategies and participation in the venture exit market. This is a scene where the gears for attracting customers through the app and connecting them to wealth management and corporate finance are beginning to mesh.

⚙️ Priority 1: Kiwoom Point expands customer touchpoints beyond trading

Kiwoom Securities’ app-based rewards service Kiwoom Point surpassed 1 million users as of August 21, 2026. This came about 1 year and 8 months after its launch at the end of 2024, and the number doubled roughly 7 months after reaching 500,000 users in January this year ^[1].

The service was introduced not as an app limited to stock trading, but as a mobile service connecting shopping, content use, and investment experiences ^[4]. It was also described as a service that can be used like cash, and was evaluated as an example showing trends in customer-base expansion and service usage alongside the growth in users ^[5].

Let’s start with the big picture. If competition among online securities firms is not limited to the trading screen, Kiwoom Point could give customers one more reason to stay in the app. However, the fact that the number of users has increased and the extent to which this leads to actual trading, wealth management, and profitability are separate issues. The question to watch here is how deeply the 1 million-user headline translates into actual usage. The number is the entrance; the structure comes next.

📚 Priority 2: The pension platform targets needs by age group

Pyo Young-dae, head of Kiwoom Securities’ Pension Platform Division, explained that pension management strategies should vary by age group. In an interview, he suggested global ETFs for people in their 20s and an asset-preservation-focused strategy for those in their 50s ^[2].

This statement shows that Kiwoom Securities views pension services not as a single product, but as something to be tailored to customers’ ages and objectives. Going one step further, if Kiwoom Point creates broad customer touchpoints, the pension platform could take on the role of connecting those touchpoints to long-term wealth management.

Of course, a strategy proposal from an interview does not immediately mean a finalized company-wide plan or performance. How far the directions of global ETFs and asset preservation lead to actual service design, user retention, and asset inflows remains a separate variable to verify. In relay-race terms, if the first runner brought in the customers, the next runner has to hold onto them for the long haul.

🏭 Priority 3: Expanding venture capital, a link to corporate finance

Fifteen securities firms, including Kiwoom Securities, are participating in a plan to inject funds into the venture exit market. The article stated the total scale as 1,000,000,000,000 KRW, and also noted that individual investment sizes could expand if additional commercial paper issuers receive approval and comprehensive financial investment business operators join in the future ^[3].

From Kiwoom Securities’ perspective, a new pillar is being added beyond online trading centered on individual customers and the pension platform: participation in the funding recovery market for companies and ventures. Structurally, expanding the customer base can be seen as the retail gear, pensions as the wealth-management gear, and the venture exit market as the corporate-finance and capital-management gear. This connection is the key.

However, what has been confirmed in the article is participation in a joint plan and the possibility of expansion resulting from institutional changes. Kiwoom Securities’ individual investment size or profit impact has not been disclosed, so it is still too early to interpret this as confirmed company results or concrete business performance.

🔗 The gap between share price and business expansion

According to reference share-price data, Kiwoom Securities recorded ₩276,000 and +3.18% on August 25, and closed at ₩280,000 and +0.54% on August 31. Trading volume on August 31 was 84,024. The share price moved over those several days, but it is difficult to attribute the change alone to the effects of Kiwoom Point, pensions, or participation in the venture exit market.

Dotori views Kiwoom Securities as being at a stage where it must be confirmed whether expanding retail customer touchpoints leads to wealth management and corporate finance. One million users is certainly a notable milestone, but the next boxes contain usage frequency, asset inflows, and each business line’s contribution to earnings. Whether Kiwoom Point’s customer expansion will flow into the pension platform, and whether venture capital participation will lead to actual corporate-finance results, are the two remaining questions.

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Kiwoom Securities’ ‘Kiwoom Point’ surpasses 1 million users

네이버뉴스 · 2026.08.31

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[Money Interview] Pyo Young-dae, Head of Kiwoom Securities’ Pension Platform Division: “Global ETFs for people in their 20s, asset preservation for those in their 50s… Pension management strategies should differ” - Nate

네이트 · 2026.08.31

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15 securities firms to inject 1,000,000,000,000 KRW into the venture exit market

네이버뉴스 · 2026.08.31

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Kiwoom Securities’ ‘Kiwoom Point’ surpasses 1 million users

네이버뉴스 · 2026.08.31

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Kiwoom Securities’ cash-like ‘Kiwoom Point’ surpasses 1 million users - Electronic Times

전자신문 · 2026.08.31

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