---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171843-26-003730"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HAFC"
cik: "0001109242"
company_name: "HANMI FINANCIAL CORP"
filed_at: "2026-05-27T22:15:32+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T10:09:26.306587+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Gideon Yu resigns from Hanmi board; stockholders approve 2026 ESPP

## Summary
- Gideon Yu resigned from Hanmi Financial and Hanmi Bank boards effective May 22, 2026; no disagreement cited.
- Yu served since 2021, was on Nominating and Risk Committees; his resignation predated the annual meeting.
- Stockholders approved the 2026 Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 24,886,127 votes for, 12,400 against.
- All ten board nominees elected; advisory say-on-pay passed with 24,534,573 votes for.
- Ratification of Crowe LLP as auditor for fiscal 2026 approved: 26,350,596 for, 68,179 against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171843-26-003730
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HAFC
- cik: 0001109242
- company_name: HANMI FINANCIAL CORP
- filed_at: 2026-05-27T22:15:32+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1109242/000117184326003730/0001171843-26-003730-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1109242/000117184326003730/f8k_052726.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-26-003730.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 43cccb810d
  claim: Gideon Yu resigned as Director at HANMI FINANCIAL CORP.
  evidence_excerpt: On May 22, 2026, Gideon Yu, a member of the Board of Directors of Hanmi Financial Corporation (the 'Corporation') and its subsidiary corporation, Hanmi Bank (the 'Bank'), notified the Corporation of his resignation from the Boards of the Corporation and the Bank, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1109242/000117184326003730/0001171843-26-003730-index.htm

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