- Wins Prestigious iF Design Award 2010'
- Customer-Oriented Floor Space with Beautiful Design Highly Evaluated

Incheon International Airport branch won the German ‘IF Design Award 2010’, one of the world’s major 3 design awards, taking first place in the area of bank space.

iF Design Award is an international design contest, which was started in Germany in 1954 and has served as an internationally recognized and prestigious trademark for outstanding design together with Red Dot of Germany and IDEA (International Design Excellence Award) from the USA. There were 2,486 entries from 1,016 companies from 39 different nations competing for this year’s award.

Incheon International Airport branch changed the space in the bank where transactions and office work were the main focus, into a customer-oriented space and received outstanding evaluations for exceptional design arrangement in the area.  

It is designed to form an independent cylindrical consulting space and familiar waiting space like a living room, different from stereotyped straight window arrangements, and to harmonize the function of a business office and customer service space, obtaining the best possible solution.

Lee Gang Hyu, team leader of Marketing Strategic Department, Hana Bank, said “It is the conversion of our thoughts to a customer-oriented focus and application of this from the stage of design that made us win this award.” He went on to say, “We are very glad that such a change in bank space is rated high on the world stage.”.

Meanwhile, Incheon International Airport branch of Hana Bank was also selected as a winner of the Good Design Award(GD), a prestigious Korean design award, first in the financial sector. With this, its efforts to apply smart design to bank branches won recognition.