5th Annual Korea Investors Forum

He is an investment professional with 17 years of experience in managing various Global Equity portfolios and Strategic Asset Allocation for Korea Investment Corporation, which is the sovereign wealth fund of South Korea. He is currently leading the strategic asset allocation as Senior Director of Investment Strategy & Innovation Group at KIC. Prior to the current role, he had built and managed various global equity portfolios and relevant platforms for both quantitative and fundamental strategies as a founding member of direct global equity team at KIC since 2007. Previously, he also worked in the model validation team at Shinhan Bank. He holds a MA in Management Engineering at KAIST and a BA in Economics at Korea University. He is currently a PhD candidate of Data Strategy Laboratory at KAIST.

Seonghun Min is a professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Real Estate at the University of Suwon. He researches real estate finance focusing on investment strategy, benchmark index, and ESG integration. He authored two books: ‘Real Estate Investment’ and ‘ESG, The Future of Investment’. He serves as the member of the Alternative Investment Committee of National Pension Service and Government Employees Pension Service and served as the member of the Asset Management Committee of Housing and Urban Fund, which are representative public funds in Korea.

Sangbum Choo is currently Head of the Private Equity Investment Team and a member of the PE Investment Committee at Samsung Asset Management. Prior to joining Samsung Asset Management, he was with National Pension Service of Korea (NPS) as a senior portfolio manager for 7 years. Among the 7 years in NPS, he worked for the London office of NPS for 3 years. Before joining NPS, he worked for 5 years at the Global Investment Team of the KTB Asset Management and its Hong Kong based subsidiary, KTB Asia. Sangbum is a graduate of London Business School and holds a BBA from Seoul National University.

With over a decade of experience in portfolio management, he has a strong track record in delivering risk-adjusted returns across diverse asset classes. Currently at Samsung Asset Management, he co-manages one of Korea’s largest target-date funds and a unique multi-asset strategy. His expertise spans macroeconomics, tactical asset allocation, and fund selection. Previously, he led multi-billion dollar portfolios at Korea’s National Pension Service and Korea Investment Management, including a USD 2 billion country allocation fund and a USD 1.5 billion TAA program, with a strong focus on investment risk and due diligence.

Mr. Kam joined Kyobo Life Insurance in May 2013. From 2016 to current, Mr. Kam was a lead PM responsible for hedge funds including co-investments and equities. From 2013 to 2016, he was a portfolio manager who covered domestic equities and hedge funds. Mr. Kam was previously a investment professional of equities and alternatives at Fubon Hyundai Life Insurance from 2011 to 2013.Before then, Mr. Kam was EM economist and equity strategist in SK Securities from 2008 to 2011. He received B.A.s in Bio Technology and Financial Engineering from Korea University in 2008.

Rachel Kim is an alternative and equity portfolio manager at AIA Life Insurance. Previously, she managed retirement pensions for firefighters at the Korean Fire Officials Credit Union. Before that, she had experience investing in a variety of onshore and offshore assets at Lotte Insurance company. She earned a BA degree in economics from Ewha Womans University and a MA degree in economics from Yonsei University. Currently, she is pursuing a Ph.D. in finance at Sungkyunkwan University's School of Business. She holds a CFA ESG certification.

Seung-ki Jeong is Kiwoom Asset management’s alternative investment manager. He is re-sponsible for investing in real estate, infrastructure, private debt, private equity, and other alternative assets. Prior to Kiwoom, he worked at DGB Life insurance as an alternative invest-ment manager. Before DGB Life, he was MG Non-Life Insurance company’s alternative in-vestment manager. He started his finance career at DB Financial Investment as an alternative investment analyst. He earned a Bachelor's degree at Hanyang University.

Yunsuk (David) Oh is Senior Investment Manager at the Private Equity Team of the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (NACF), which he joined in April 2025. He previously worked at the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives (2018–2025) and the Military Mutual Aid Association (2013–2018), focusing on alternative investments. Over his career, he has executed more than 50 transactions across private equity, private debt, infrastructure, and structured products. He is the author of the Handbook of Alternative Investment and the finance-themed novel Default, and has also taught professional courses on global private credit investing at the Korea Financial Investment Association.

Jiyun Chung joined Woori Asset Management in Feb 2024 to head its global equity team. From 2020 -2023, she was Director, Equities for Manulife Vietnam where she managed Vietnam equities fund. Between 2012 - 2019, she was portfolio manager and company representative for Hanwha Asset Management in Korea, Singapore and Vietnam. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Business from Yonsei University.

Jinho Conor Lee is currently heading an investment unit, which is responsible for the deploy-ment of balance sheet capital of Meritz Group, towards private credit opportunities in de-veloped markets, including Korea. Prior to joining Meritz Group in 2016, his career had em-braced diversified products and solutions in institutional business domain at US investment banks (JPMorgan Korea, Citigroup Global Markets Hong Kong) and Swiss private bank (Bank Julius Baer Hong Kong), where he was running the entire institutional business for Korean Institutions based both on-shore and off-shore Korea (Hong Kong & Singapore). He holds Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration at Korea University and MBA at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.