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life insurers raised their premiums because they said there were too many actual loss insurance, but they said they made a lot of money in other areas other than actual loss insurance. Banks are similarly predicting a money feast, but criticism is coming.
Reporter Jeon Yeon-nam reports.
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At the end of this month, major non-life insurers plan to pay their employees 30% or more of their annual salary as a bonus.
This is the result of a big profit last year.
As a result of the increase in net profit by as much as 70% for each company, the top 10 companies combined recorded a surplus of 3.4 trillion won until the third quarter.
It is analyzed that the surplus in auto insurance has increased as people move less due to the corona crisis.
It has only been ten days since the premium was raised to 16% while emphasizing only the loss seen in the indemnity insurance, so consumers are absurd.
[Consumers subject to insurance premium increase: If it was 46,615 won before renewal, it is now 93,567 won. How many pros have this been raised? Isn't that too much... .]
[Bae Hong/Director of Insurance Bureau of Financial Consumers Federation: We do not accept responsibility for excessive business expenses and poor management, but share (profits) only with ourselves and pass on losses to consumers. do.)]
Banks are also expected to pay around 300% of their base salary as a performance bonus, recording the largest performance ever.
When the government demanded that household loans be reduced, the loan interest rate was raised faster than the deposit rate, which is interpreted as the result of generating huge interest income.
[Lee Jeong-hee/Professor, Department of Economics, Chung-Ang University: Financial institutions are actually an industry protected by the government, and these efforts are needed to share some pain by reducing the loan-deposit margin.
] I'm just bruising.