5th Annual Korea Investors Forum

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Join the 5th Annual Korea Investors Forum on November 5, 2025, in Seoul, a premier event for investment officers, board members, and trustees from Korean institutions.  

Engage in in-depth discussions on topics investment trends across traditional and alternative asset classes and markets opportunities. Network with industry leaders to explore hedge fund allocation trends, asset recovery, and navigating the credit market cycle 

Register now to gain valuable insights and connect with peers shaping Korea's investment landscape!

OUR SPEAKERS

Keynote Speakers

Hoon Lee

Hoon Lee

Korea Investment Corporation

Chief Investment Officer

Hoon Lee is Chief Investment Officer of Korea Investment Corporation. Previously, Mr. Lee served as the head of KIC’s Investment Strategy & Innovation Division and Public Market Division. Since joining KIC in 2014, he has also led the Asset Allocation Group, Investment Strategy Group and Research Group. Prior to KIC, Mr. Lee worked as an equity analyst at Korea Investment Securities, Woori Investment Securities and Samsung Securities and as a portfolio manager at Macquarie-IMM asset management and Daewoo Capital Management. Mr. Lee has a B.A. in economics from Sogang University and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a CFA charterholder.

Speakers

Wonhyeok Choi

Wonhyeok Choi

Korea Investment Corporation

Senior Director, Strategic Asset Allocation, Investment Strategy & Innovation Group

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

Seonghun Min

National Pension Service

Professor, University of Suwon; External Member, Alternative Investment Committee

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.

Dongkwan Han

Dongkwan Han

Sungdam (Single-Family Office)

Investment Team Leader

Dongkwan Han is Investment Team Leader at Sung Dam, a leading Korean single family office. With over 16 years of experience in alternative investments, he oversees approximately USD 500 million across real asset, private equity, and venture capital globally. His professional background spans institutional investing, asset management, and corporate strategic investment at Samsung Life Insurance, the National Pension Service, Platform Partners Asset Management, and Samsung C&T, allowing him to build a strong global network and a well-rounded perspective on portfolio construction. He holds an M.S. in Green Business & Policy from KAIST College of Business and a B.A. in Economics from Korea University.
Jaewon Park, CFA, CAIA

Jaewon Park, CFA, CAIA

Shinhan Asset Management

Head of Public Asset Investment & Chief Strategist

Jaewon Park is Head of Public Asset Investment and Chief Strategist at Shinhan Asset Management SLAMS, where she oversees portfolio strategy across both public and private assets, while managing liquid portfolios including equities, fixed income, and credits for Shinhan Life Insurance. Her responsibilities range from long-term asset allocation to day-to-day trading oversight, integraring top-down strategy with practical execution. She previously held key roles at the National Pension Service (NPS), Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), and Schroders as a strategist and portfolio manager, and began her career as a FICC specialist at ANZ, Barclays, and Hana Bank. This combined experience across buy-side and sell-side institutions has given her a comprehensive perspective on global markets. Jaewon holds a B.A. in Economics from Korea University and an M.S. in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), and is also certified in economic forecasting by the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF). From 2021 to July 2025, Jaewon served as a Chapter Executive of the CAIA Association. In 2025, she became the first Korean member of the CFA institute’s Education Advisory Committee (EAC), where she contributes her expertise to advancing global investment education and bridging practical portfolio management with academic and professional standards.

Young Seok Chung

Young Seok Chung

Korea Teachers' Pension Fund

Senior Manager, Corporate Finance Team

Mr. Jeong serves as a Senior Manager at the Teachers’ Pension (TP). Since joining the organization in 2014, he is currently responsible for the management of diverse corporate finance portfolios, including private equity, private debt, and venture capital investments within the broader spectrum of alternative assets. Mr. Jeong graduated from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) with MBA and holds Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and Financial Risk Manager (FRM).
Sangbum Choo

Sangbum Choo

Samsung Asset Management

Head of Private Equity Investment Team

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.

Hi Kun Kim

Hi Kun Kim

Samsung Asset Management

Vice President, Asset Allocation Team

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.

Seunghee Kim

Seunghee Kim

AIA Life Korea

Manager, Investment

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.

Seungki Jeong

Seungki Jeong

Kiwoom Asset Management

Head of Alternative Investment Team 2

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 Oh

Yunsuk Oh

National Agricultural Cooperative Federation

Senior Manager, Private Equity Investment Team, Cooperative Banking Alternative Investment Department

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

Jiyun Chung

Woori Asset Management

Team Leader, Global Equity Team

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.

Seong Ho Kim

Seong Ho Kim

Hana Bank

Head of Global Real Estate

Kyson Suh is an Associate Director at WTW with two decades of actuarial experience across asset-liability management, risk modeling, and actuarial strategy. Based in Seoul, he has advised insurers on internal model development, co-insurance, ALM strategies, and M&A due diligence, and previously pioneered Korea’s first bond forward market while working as a quant-actuary at a major life insurer. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Seoul National University and an MBA in Digital Finance from KAIST. Kyson is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA), a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Korea (FIAK), a CFA charterholder, and a Financial Risk Manager (FRM).

Jinho Conor Lee

Jinho Conor Lee

Meritz Securities

Director, Head, Structured Solution Group, Structured Investment Division

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.

Kyson Suh

Kyson Suh

Willis Towers Watson

IC&T Associate Director

Kyson Suh is an Associate Director at WTW with two decades of actuarial experience across asset-liability management, risk modeling, and actuarial strategy. Based in Seoul, he has advised insurers on internal model development, co-insurance, ALM strategies, and M&A due diligence, and previously pioneered Korea’s first bond forward market while working as a quant-actuary at a major life insurer. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Seoul National University and an MBA in Digital Finance from KAIST. Kyson is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA), a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Korea (FIAK), a CFA charterholder, and a Financial Risk Manager (FRM).

Chaewoo Nam

Chaewoo Nam

Korea Capital Market Institute

Senior Advisor, Funds and Pension

Dr. Nam is a research fellow in fund & pension division of Korea Capital Market Institute (KCMI). He has been a member of the Public Pension Investment Pool Steering Committee since 2024. He also serves as the head of the Alternative Investment Advisory Group within the pension investment pool. He was a former head of fund performance evaluation team in National Pension Research Institute (NPRI), which was a division of National Pension Service (NPS). His research area covers all of the asset management of pension fund, especially the ESG and alternative investment(AI) of institutional investors. He received his PhD in Management Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
Jongho Ryu

Jongho Ryu

Mirae Asset Securities

General Manager, SMEs Pension Management Team, OCIO Solutions Division

He is currently a portfolio manager at Mirae Asset Securities, managing the SME retirement pension fund with a focus on macro and quantitative-based investment strategies. He has extensive experience in fixed-income and multi-asset portfolio management. He began his career as a FICC trader and KTB Primary Dealer at Tongyang Investment Bank, a government-authorized dealer of Korea Treasury Bonds (KTB). He then joined NH Financial Group, providing asset allocation advisory, portfolio performance evaluation, as well as FX strategy and risk management for subsidiaries including life insurance, non-life insurance, and bank. Most recently, he served as a portfolio manager at Hanwha Asset Management, managing special accounts for insurance companies with a focus on long-term investment strategies, including liability-driven investment (LDI). He is a CFA charterholder and holds the FRM designation
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Key Discussion Topics

  • Macro Outlook and Global Asset Allocation
  • Diversifying the Passive Equity Allocation with Low Tracking Error Strategies
  • How to Build a Great Core Equity Portfolio
  • Fixed Income and Currency Management - Realistic Expectations and Ways to Enhance
  • Real Assets - Investments in Real Estate, Energy and Infrastructure
  • Evaluating Alternative Beta Strategies
  • Alternatives - Moving From Assets to Outcomes
  • Investing in Today's Global Equity Markets
  • ETFs as a Tool for Optimizing Institutional Portfolios
  • Chief Investment Officer Management

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