Mr. Kim has more than 10 years of experience at the finance team of Bae, Kim & Lee LLC, where he specialized in (i) foreign banks establishing branch offices in Korea, (ii) various securities firms, asset management companies, and investment advisory firms obtaining required licenses and approvals, (iii) companies responding to sanctions imposed by financial supervisory authorities, (iv) IPO and compliance with listing requirements, (v) M&A of financial institutions, (vi) PEF investments, and (vii) project financing transactions, among others.
From 2017, Mr. Kim worked as a compliance officer/money laundering reporting officer/consumer protection officer at K Bank, the first direct bank (online-only bank) in Korea. There, he played a leading role in K Bank providing a real-name verification system for account deposit and withdrawal services to Upbit, a cryptocurrency exchange. He also oversaw the management of overall anti-money laundering matters related to cryptocurrency exchanges.