Many thanks for attending our Korea Capital Market Conference – Invest & IPO 2018.
The event was enjoyed by all those who attended on the day; commenting on how they welcomed the opportunity to understand the recent developments in the Korean financial markets and to learn about why the KRX is the right equity financing venue for foreign issuers.
Special thanks to the Korea Exchange, and our sponsors Eugene Investment & Securities, Korea Investment Partners, PwC Korea, Samsung Securities, Yoon & Yang and Yulcon, LLC; without their support, this event would not have been possible.
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Wednesday, 20th June. 2018
Plaza I-II, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Los Angeles
Agenda
Korea Exchange
Korea Exchange
– Introduction of the Korea Exchange and the KOSDAQ
– IPO Benefits of the KOSDAQ
Korea Investment Partners
– Korea Investment Partners Overview
– KIP Investment Update
– KIP Investment Strategy
Samsung Securities
– Analysis of Stock & IPO Market
– Recent trend in KRX IPO Market
– Case Study
PwC Korea
– Related regulations
– Accounting issue
– Preparation procedure
Yoon & Yang LLC
– Introduction
– Key legal considerations
– Roles of law firms
Networking Session (Q&A)
Conference Closes
Jae Uk Khil
Chairman of Kosdaq Market Commission
Korea Exchange
Dr. Jaeuk Khil has been teaching finance in the College of Economics and Business of Hanyang University at Ansan since 1995. He received a B.S. in Economics from Seoul National University, an M.S. in Finance from lowa State University and a Ph. D. in Finance from University of Minnesota.
Prof. Khil’s main research area is the time series analysis application in the capital
markets and the risk management area with the financial derivatives. He published
more than 20 papers in leading international academic journals such as Journal of
Futures Market, Asia Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, Review of Quantitative
Finance and Accounting, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions &
Money, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Emerging Markets Finance & Trade and top
Korean academic journals such as Korean Journal of Financial Studies, Korean Journal of Finance, Korean Financial Management Review. Prof. Khil has recently received the multi-year research grant, GRN (Global Research Network), from Korea Research Foundation. The topic of the research is the role of the financial market development in the pension industry under the aging society.
His academic service in the filed of Finance includes the President of KSA(Korean
Securities Assocition), director of Korean Finance Association and etc. He has also
served the academic community of Korea’s finance field as the editor of Korean
Journal of Financial Studies.
He has also coauthored 3 text books in Korean, Financial Management. Personal
Finance, and Principles of Business Management. He has also served for several
public positions in the capital market in Korea such as Financial Supervisory Commission, Korea Futures Market, KOSDAQ, and KIC(Korea Investment Corporation),
the sovereign wealth fund of Korea. He has recently started a new postion, Chairman
of the KOSDAQ Market Commission in Korea Exchange
Education
1994 | Ph.D. in Business Administration (Finance), University of Minnesota.
Dissertation : Time Series Modeling of U.S. Stock Prices: Analysis of Permanent and Temporary Components |
1988 | M.S in Business Administration (Finance), Iowa State University
Thesis: An Alternative View of the Role of Corporate Bond Rating Thesis Advisor: Prof. Roger Stover |
1982 | B.A in Economics, Seoul National University, 1982 |
Experience
Professional Positions
Chairman, KOSDAQ Market Commission, Korea Exchange, 2018-Current
Outside Director, Kiwoom Securities, 2015-2018
Chair, Pension Evaluation Committee, Mistry of Finance & Strategy, Korea, 2015-2016
Outside Director, SK Securities, 2008-2014
Member of Advisory Board, Credit Guarantee Fund, 2003-2015
Member of Steering Commission, Korea Investment Corporation, 2005-2008
Member of Market Surveillance Committee, Financial Supervisory Commission, 2007-2009
Outside Director, SK Securities, 2002-2005
Outside Director, Korea Futures Exchange, 1999-2002
Member of Advisory Board, UTC Venture Capital, 1998-2001
Outside Director, Farmers Credit Union Futures, 1998-1999
Junior Officer, Bank of Seoul, 1982-1985
Academic Services
PM, Global Research Network Project, Korea Research Foundation, 2013.9-2016.8
Project Title: “Pensions and the Financial Markets in the Ageing Society”
31 st President, Korean Securities Association, 2014-2015
Chief Editor, Korean Journal of Financial Studies, 2011- 2013
Chief Editor, Journal of Small Business Innovation, KASBS, 2014-Current
Member of Editorial Board, Korean Journal of Venture Studies, 2009-Current
Hyun Joo Joo
Senior manager
Korea Exchange
Hyun Joo Joo is a senior manager at Korea Exchange. She delivers competitive listing opportunities to international companies with straightforward listing procedure and highly flexible framework.
As a previous Listing Review Specialist of both KOSPI & KOSDAQ markets, she is well-versed in most areas of listing process. Her combined expertise in corporate disclosure field (e.g. listing maintenance review) has allowed her to provide a holistic & deeper insight to our market participants. As of now, she has reviewed the listing process of about 100 companies including Samsung Biologics. She also has offered disclosure consultancy (listing maintenance) service to 140 companies as a Corporate Disclosure Specialist.
Education
2001 Korea University master, International Study
1999 EWHA Women’s University graduate, Journalism
Experience
2018-present Listing Promotions, KRX
2016-17 Listing Eligibility Review (KOSPI), KRX
2012-15 Corporate Disclosure, KRX
2007-11 Listing Eligibility Review (KOSPI), KRX
2004-2006 Listing Eligibility Review (KOSDAQ), KRX
Sang Woo Lee
Executive Director
Korea Investment Partners
Sangwoo Lee is leading US branch of Korea investment Partners and expanding investment port-folios in US, UK, Australia and Israel. He has 18 years of industrial experiences, before his financial career, in diverse area and companies in IT including Samsung Electronics, Dasan networks, and successful venture startups of Neomtel and Polidigm. As an entrepreneur, He led the core engineering development and business development. Neomtel introduced a new service concept of mobile image compression and transmission at 2000 and its graphic technology became a de-facto standard in Korea at early 2000s. The technology was adapted by Qualcomm later and the company went IPO at 2007.
He received his B.S. and M.S. in Control and Instrumentation Engineering from Seoul National University. He is a fluent English speaker.
Jun Han Kim
Director/Head of IPO
Samsung Securities
B.A., Sogang University
M.B.A., Thunderbird School of Global Management
Chief Manager, Samsung Securities America Inc. (New York)
Head of IPO, Investment Banking, Samsung Securities
Steven Kang
Partner
PwC Korea
Steven is the Capital Markets Group Leader in Korea. In this capacity, Steven is involved in assisting companies on inbound and outbound IPOs and capital market transactions within PwC Korea. As the Korean Capital Market Group Leader, he is involved in all inbound IPO engagements of foreign companies into the Korean stock exchange and outbound IPO engagements of Korean companies going abroad.
His recent clients include US Company listing in Korea (Englewood LAB), Indonesian Company P KIPO (in progress). His other KIPO clients include companies from China, Australia, and NZ. Steven started his career at PwC Australia and has extensive experience in cross border IPOs and transactions, including various services with multinational clients including Samsung Electronics US 144A Bond Offering, Samsung Life Insurance IPO, KB Financial 144A Bond Offering, IBK 144A MTN, and many Chinese, US, NZ and Australian companies IPO in Korea, and many Korean companies IPO in US and HK.
Steven is also the leader of the Global Client Services Group, a multi-disciplinary services group that is crossed between assurance, transactions services and financial advisory services, responsible for serving companies with cross border transactions.
Sung Woon Kang
Partner
Yoon & Yang
Sung Woon Kang is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC and his main practice areas are securities and finance. He has experience with the issuance of securities by domestic companies through private and public offerings locally and abroad, domestic and overseas loans for financial institutions, project finance, and overseas investment by domestic companies. He also participated in the listing of foreign enterprises on Korea Exchanges for 3NOD and China Great Star.
Education
2011 Santa Clara University School of Law, LL.M.
2001 Seoul National University College of Law, LL.B.
Experience
2014-present Partner, Yoon & Yang LLC (formerly Yoon Yang Kim Shin & Yu, 2006-2009)
2005-14 Associate, Yoon & Yang LLC