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Park Hyeon-joo is the chairman of Mirae Asset Group.

He is focused on expanding into the Indian market, strengthening the group's overseas exchange-traded fund (ETF) brand, and driving the growth of global operations.

He was born on October 17, 1958, in Gwangju.

He graduated from Gwangju Jeil High School and studied business administration at Korea University.

After working at Dongyang Securities and serving as a director at Dongwon Securities, he founded Mirae Venture Investment and Mirae Asset Global Investments in 1997.

He broadened the group's business scope by launching Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Mirae Asset Securities, and Mirae Asset Life Insurance, thus expanding into the securities and insurance sectors.

Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, he grew the business by acquiring SK Investment Trust Management, SK Life Insurance, and KDB Daewoo Securities, as well as local ETF-specialized firms in Canada, the United States, and Australia, and the Indian brokerage firm Sharekhan.

After stepping down as chairman of Mirae Asset Securities, he has concentrated on overseas operations as the head of global strategy.

He is regarded as a “pioneer of Korea’s capital market” and “one of the country’s top financial strategists.” He is known for his risk-taking nature and instinctive investment sense.

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