The number of accidents related to personal information leakage is increasing every year in Korea. Due to the characteristics of financial companies, they deal with large quantities of customers’ personal and sensitive information; therefore, they have many points of consideration about personal information destruction influence on their system. However, the current regulations are too theoretical to apply to real work environments. This research developed a case of a financial company, which developed an efficient and practical strategy on personal information destruction based on not only relevant regulations and domestic/foreign research, but also interviews with staffs Incharge of personal information management. This segmentalized strategy fulfills the legal requirements of personal information destruction and minimizes the influence on businesses simultaneously.

destruction of personal information, right to be forgotten, data deletion, personal information protection.