12
Sep
South Korean LPs: A balancing act
South Korean LPs, known for their long-term view and global approach, are reassessing their private market allocations due to liquidity constraints and valuation uncertainty. Secondaries seem to be the top strategy of choice for the LP as they balance their portfolios and mitigate risk globally. Leading investors will share their strategic approach to asset allocation and how they are positioned going forward against a backdrop of macro uncertainty.
- How have approaches to portfolio construction shifted?
- What is the outlook for exits and distributions in 2025?
- Which geographies and strategies are most favoured at present?
- How are LPs selecting their managers in the current landscape?
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SpeakersSeung-ki Jeong Head of Alternative Investment Team Kiwoom Asset Management
Yeon Jung Portfolio Manager Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance
Daewon Kim Head of Private Equity & Venture Capital Hanwha Life Insurance
Sangmyung Lee Director, Private Equity Group KIC
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Seung-ki Jeong is Kiwoom Asset management’s alternative investment head of team.
He is responsible for investing in alternative assets. Prior to Kiwoom, he worked at DGB Life insurance as an alternative investment manager. Before DGB Life, he was MG Non-Life Insurance company’s alternative investment manager. He started his finance career at DB Financial Investment as an alternative investment analyst.
Yeon Jung is a senior investment professional with over 15 years of experience in global private markets, having committed nearly $5 billion. She currently leads private equity investments at Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance. At Korea’s National Pension Service Investment Management, she built expertise across all major strategies and regions in private markets. Yeon holds an MPA from Columbia University in the City of New York and dual BAs from Yonsei University.
Mr. Kim is the Head of Private Equity and Venture Capital at Hanwha Life Insurance, where he manages the PE/VC portfolio and leads investing in funds and co-investment opportunities. Before joining Hanwha in 2016, Mr. Kim worked at the Corporate and Investment Banking franchise of BNP Paribas Seoul Branch. He began his career in the Investment Banking Division at NH Investment & Securities. Mr. Kim holds a BA in Business Administration from Seoul National University.
Sangmyung Lee is a Director at the Private Equity Group of KIC. Since joining KIC in 2013, he took responsibility for Venture Capital and Growth Equity investments in the Private Equity Group.
Sangmyung Lee also serves as a Strategist for the Private Equity Group.Since 2022, he has been a lecturer at the Korea Venture Capital Institution (KVCI), where he teaches Overseas VC investment to junior staff of local VC firms in Korea. In 2023, he was invited as a panelist to the Nobel Prize Dialogue in Seoul, where he discussed "AI and Future Learning."
Mr. Lee has a bachelor’s degree in Economics with honors Summa Cum Laude from the University of California Berkeley.