The Korea Development Bank (KDB), is a national entity that was founded with the purpose of supplying and managing major industrial capital to help develop the economy of the Republic of Korea. Since its establishment, KDB has been providing financing for the development and promotion of industries, the expansion of social infrastructure development of countries, including that of the Republic of Korea, the stabilization of financial markets and the facilitation of sustainable growth. KDB has placed climate change and socially responsible investment as policy issues that are addressed in its annual planning.

The Korea Development Bank(hereinafter KDB Bank) was founded in 1954 in accordance with The Korea Development Bank Act for the purpose of supplying and managing major industrial capital to help develop Korean industries and the national economy. For the half century since then, KDB Bank has faithfully fulfilled its role as a government-run bank, anticipating and coping with changes in the economic and financial environment.

New financial policy amid market-oriented economic paradigm

• -Expansion and diversification of industrial capital supply for dissolution of credit blockade and expansion of growth power industries
• -Efficient support for the government's policies including rearing small and medium enterprises, expanding social overhead capital, and balanced economic development in local regions
• -Resolution of financial and economic uncertainties through leadership and representative roles in corporate restructuring and foreign capital funding
• -Completion of Universal Banking Services with the four core businesses - Corporate Banking, Investment Banking, --International Banking, and Corporate Restructuring & Consulting to meet various and changing needs of  customers, and pioneer in the financial frontier