Life Summary
Kim Kwang-il is the Vice Chairman of MBK Partners and also serves as one of the co-CEOs of Homeplus.

Born in 1962, he graduated from the Department of Business Administration at Seoul National University.

He passed the 34th Korean bar exam and completed training at the Judicial Research and Training Institute. He then worked as a mergers and acquisitions attorney at the law firm Kim & Chang.

In 2005, he joined MBK Partners.

Since the second half of 2024, he has led investment strategies and major decision-making processes, including the high-profile management dispute over Korea Zinc, which has stirred up the capital market.

Alongside MBK Partners founder Chairman Kim Byung-joo and Vice Chairman Yoon Jong-ha, he is widely recognized as a “master of mergers and acquisitions.”

He is known as the behind-the-scenes figure in the acquisition of Homeplus.

Often referred to as the “second-in-command” after Chairman Kim Byung-joo, he concurrently holds executive positions in about 20 companies, both in Korea and abroad.

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