He is a senior manager of Global Listing Promotion Dept in the KOSDAQ Division. He has served as facilitator for promotion of listing of foreign companies on the Korean Stock Market for years, working with KRX’s extensive network of VCs, IBs, Law Firms, and Accounting firms. Before working for his current KOSDAQ market, He worked for various divisions such as KOSPI Market, Derivatives Market and Market Oversight In the KRX.

Currently working in the VC / PE field. Have invested ICT companies in Korea and Asian market. In charge of SEA and East Asia market, visited Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand and so on. Looking for seriese A ~ C companies try to expand their market. Heavily got engaged in business team to bulild a strategy, KPI management and Go To Market execution.

The brief description is following

Consulting:-
Industry:
Heavy industry, Material&Chemical industry, Bio&Medical industry and some of entertainment and public sector
Project coverage:
Strategy formulation(growth, marketing, restructuring and ect.), GTM(Manly Asian market), Global market and business analysis, cost and performance improvement (mainly heavy industry)
Commercial Due Diligence, M&A and IPO strategy

Investment (VC&PE)
Industry: IT/SW on early and growth stage
Main Job: Deal sourcing, business, legal, financial Due Diligence, negotiation, Investment
Value up activities (internal consulting, strategy development, business planning and so on), GTM backup (manly Asian market), fundraising for domestic investors

Eui Jong (EJ) CHUNG is a partner of Bae, Kim & Lee LLC (BKL) and head of Finance Practice Group. His practice focuses on finance (including acquisition finance and project finance), capital market, financial institution restructuring and M&A, equity fund, and corporate restructuring and insolvency procedure.

Since starting his career as a lawyer with BKL in 1991, he has worked as a finance and capital market lawyer. He has advised major domestic financial institutions and companies on restructuring and M&A, various financial regulation, financing through domestic and foreign issuance of securities, including initial public offerings of many domestic and foreign companies on the Korea Exchange, acquisition finance accompanying major M&A deals and projects, and project finance. In addition, he has a lot of experience in cross-border financial transactions: He has advised major global financial institutions and private equity funds on investment in Korea and issues related to regulation.

He was an advisor to the Korean government in the Korea-EU free trade agreement, a member (in the field of foreign and international financial policy) of the economic policy committee of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, a member of the Mediation Committee for Creditor Banks and a member of the Financial Disputes Mediation Committee of the Financial Supervisory Service. He now is a contributing editor to BFL published by Center for Financial Law, Seoul National University.

She has 9 years of IPO experiences including cross-border IPOs. She received a Bachelor’s degree in business administration from Ewha Womans University and MBA from Tsinghua University. Before joining Samsung Securities, she worked at Korea Investment & Securities and Samsung Electronics.

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.