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KB Financial holds AI ideas contest to drive workplace innovation

From Dong-A Ilbo · () Korean

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  • KB Financial Group held its 2026 integrated AI agent competition to identify employee-developed tools for practical workplace use.
  • The event drew 116 teams and 316 employees from seven KB affiliates, with projects covering security, customer service, risk detection and data analysis.
  • A KB Kookmin Bank team won the grand prize for an AI system that monitors and evaluates customer service and claims operations.

KB Financial Group is asking its employees to build the next wave of workplace tools, with 116 teams competing to apply artificial intelligence directly to daily operations.

The group said it held the 2026 Integrated AI Agent Competition on the 3rd at the new KB Kookmin Bank building in Yeouido, Seoul. A total of 316 employees from KB Financial Group, KB Kookmin Bank, KB Securities, KB Insurance, KB Kookmin Card, KB Life and KB Capital took part.

Finalists presented AI applications for security-log analysis, abnormal-activity detection, internal-document analysis and customer feedback analysis. Other projects focused on early detection of consumer risks, data analysis, insurance-product development, customer consultations and support for used-car purchases.

The grand prize went to the Customer KB team from KB Insurance. Its project, called the Customer Care AI Control Center, uses AI to monitor and evaluate the entire process of consultations and insurance claims. KB Financial said it organized the competition to find tools employees could use in real work and spread strong examples across the group as it accelerates its artificial-intelligence transformation.

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Originally published by Dong-A Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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