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Kim Byung-joo is the Chairman of MBK Partners.

He leads MBK Partners, the largest private equity fund (PEF) in South Korea with assets exceeding $25.6 billion, and one of the major private equity funds in Northeast Asia.

In the significantly changed market conditions following COVID-19, he is actively seeking new investment opportunities.

He was born on October 8, 1963, in Jinhae, Gyeongsangnam-do.

As a teenager, he went to the United States alone, where he majored in English Literature at Haverford College and completed an MBA at Harvard Business School.

He met and married Park Kyung-ah, the fourth daughter of former Prime Minister Park Tae-joon, while she was studying at Parsons School of Design in the United States.

He worked at Goldman Sachs' New York headquarters and Hong Kong branch before moving to Salomon Smith Barney, where he participated in the Korean government's issuance of $4 billion worth of foreign exchange stabilization bonds during the financial crisis.

He joined The Carlyle Group and began to attract attention in the private equity market by leading the acquisition of Hanmi Bank.

In 2005, he established the private equity firm MBK Partners and went independent. Starting with Daewoo Precision Industries, he participated in numerous acquisition bids and achieved significant results in major acquisition battles.

He is known as the 'Midas Touch' in the M&A market.

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