do not gain any benefit from the diversification. Thus, bank managers in Korea focus on interest income revenue. The …This paper examines whether the diversification of operating income in Korean banks has persistently enhanced the … diversification effect on the performance of Korean banks. As a result, Korean banks discourage banking diversification and focus on …

This study attempts to examine whether the diversification effort in Korean banks for past years positively affects to … a vehicle of banking diversification, it has also accompanied with the soaring of net noninterest income expense. Thus …, we find that the key success of banking diversification does substantially depends on operating noninterest income …