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Park Hyeon-joo is chairman of Mirae Asset Group.

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

He graduated from Gwangju Jeil High School and Korea University’s Department of Business Administration.

After joining Tongyang Securities, he moved to Dongwon Securities and worked as a director.

In 1997, he founded Mirae Asset Venture Investment, now Mirae Asset Capital, and Mirae Asset Global Investments.

Right after the foreign exchange crisis, he brought innovation to Korea’s indirect investment market with the “Park Hyeon-joo Fund.” He later established Mirae Asset Securities, Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Mirae Asset Life Insurance and others, building the framework of a financial group.

In 2001, he became chairman of Mirae Asset Group and established Mirae Asset Global Investments’ Hong Kong unit, Korea’s first overseas asset management subsidiary.

He expanded the company by acquiring SK Investment Trust Management, SK Life Insurance, KDB Daewoo Securities, local exchange-traded fund (ETF) management companies in Canada, the United States and Australia, and Sharekhan, a local securities company in India.

Two years after becoming chairman of Mirae Asset Securities, he stepped down from the post and took charge as global strategy officer (GSO), putting more focus on overseas business and global investment strategy.

He is called a pioneer of Korea’s capital market. He helped spread a culture of long-term investment and overseas investment among Korean investors.

He is serving as co-chairman of the National Growth Fund Strategy Committee.

He aims to connect investment platforms that had been divided by country into one system and build a globally integrated investment service that covers both traditional financial assets and digital assets.

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