Financial Centres Of The World 2025: Why Seoul & How To Start With Invest Seoul

Z/Yen's "Focus On" series highlights key business and financial centres from around the world. Here we look at Seoul, which is the largest city and capital of South Korea, as well as being home to many Fortune 500 companies, such as Samsung, LG, and Hyundai. In this webinar, Bonhi Gu will primarily deal with general information on Seoul city as a global financial hub and Invest Seoul as a foreign investment promotion agency established by Seoul Metropolitan Government. Speaker: Bonhi Gu is the Commissioner of Invest Seoul since 2022, with over 20 years of his previous career in banking industry. He is truly enthusiastic about making Seoul a leading hub of global business, innovation, and talent in Asia. Most recently Mr. Gu has been leading work for Woori Bank Korea. There, he served as an investment banking manager & derivative trader in London & Seoul. Before that, from 2011-2015, he led the Global Business Department where he handled both HR issues and budget management of overseas networks and employees. Also, he contributed to the company by launching banking products for global Wealth Management clients. His work has taken him to Woori Bank Europe GmbH in 2016, where he mainly focused on corporate banking business, money intermediary, and bond trading business.