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Complaint Intake and Handling Process Under Examination Public Briefing Set for Next Month
South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service will examine how banks, insurers, brokerages and card companies operate their call centers, part of an effort to strengthen consumer protection. The move comes as financial firms have rolled out artificial intelligence agents on a large scale, leaving consumers stuck in what critics call an "AI runaround" — inefficient automated exchanges that fail to resolve complaints.
The FSS is considering a review of its entire complaint and dispute system, from intake through resolution, according to financial industry sources on the 30th. The regulator is expected to focus in particular on cases where complaints cannot be filed smoothly because of delays in reaching call center agents.
"Problems are emerging on several fronts, from delays in connecting to call center agents to financial firms relying on the FSS for complaints they should resolve themselves," an FSS official said. "We plan to review the complaint-handling systems of financial companies across the board."
Consumer frustration has grown as financial firms push digital transformation, cutting the number of human agents while expanding AI consultation services. Because AI agents learn from data, they have clear limits: they fail to grasp the context of individual questions and cannot answer matters requiring expertise such as legal issues. Critics say the result is that problems go unresolved while the wait to reach a human agent only grows longer, adding to consumer inconvenience.
Cases in which financial firms pass along problems they should handle themselves are also increasing. Non-dispute insurance complaints will be transferred to bodies including the Korea Life Insurance Association and the General Insurance Association of Korea starting next month, but complaints remain heavily concentrated at the FSS. The regulator handled 127,809 complaints last year, up 17.0% from a year earlier. The average processing period lengthened by 5.1 days to 46.6 days.
Late last year, the FSS created a consumer protection division reporting directly to the governor, shifting the focus of financial supervision from after-the-fact remedies to prevention. The aim is to protect consumers from the product design stage onward. Next month, the agency plans to hold a public briefing led by Governor Lee Chan-jin to announce results of its consumer protection efforts.
Original reporting by Cho Ji-won for Seoul Economic Daily.
AI-translated from Korean. Quotes from foreign sources are based on Korean-language reports and may not reflect exact original wording.
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