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KYUNG-MIN

Welcome — I'm Min.

Second year at Mizuho Bank, currently PM on the ISO 20022 Hybrid. Look around to get to know me, read my sector research, or jump into the PLAYHOUSE.

Careers Research PLAYHOUSE
01 — Careers

Education

SEP 2018 — MAR 2024

B.A. in Economics

Waseda University, School of Political Science and Economics

GPA 3.49 / 4.0.
Recipient of Waseda University's Reserved Scholarship for Successful International Examinees (2018, 2019) and the Monbukagakusho Honors Scholarship (JASSO, 2019).

Economics

Work Experience

OCT 2024 — NOW

Analyst

Mizuho Bank, Seoul Branch

Country PM for the ISO 20022 Hybrid project, recognised with a Mizuho Award. Led an operations-automation initiative — mapping team workflows and building tools to cut manual workload, reducing reporting-process time by 47% and saving 1,178 hours a year on FX swap deal processing.

Project management Automation
JAN 2024 — MAR 2024

Research Assistant

Institutional Shareholder Services

Published proxy-voting reports for approximately 1,600 global institutional investors, analysing the shareholder-meeting agendas of 84 listed companies through a corporate-governance and shareholder-value lens.

Proxy research Governance KOSPI KOSDAQ

Extracurricular Activities

JAN 2017

Sound of Hope for Cambodian Children: THE CONCERT

2nd Cambodian–Korean Youth Charity Concert, Phnom Penh

Led the second annual charity concert in Phnom Penh — securing corporate sponsors, recruiting performers, and promoting the event — organised by Korean expatriate youth. After six months of joint preparation, the concert raised $4,100, donated to Angduong National Eye Hospital to fund eye surgeries for underprivileged children.

Project lead Sponsorship Volunteering Music

The Concert — Sound of Hope

News coverage

2023

Google Developer Student Club (GDSC), Waseda — Backend Team

Built two Google-product-powered prototypes as part of GDSC Waseda's backend team: a peer-to-peer clothing trade-and-lending app made overnight at a cross-campus hackathon, and a submission to the Google Solution Challenge.

Backend Android · Kotlin Firebase

The Bridge Hackathon — ClothesBridge

Google Solution Challenge — Givplus

02 — Research

Sector Work

Independent research, written in a personal capacity from publicly available sources. It does not represent the views of my employer, contains no confidential or internal information, and is not investment advice.

AUG 2026

Korea Payment Infrastructure (PG / VAN)

Sector deep-dive · independent research

Korea's payment infrastructure is a consolidation story in which the consolidator is legally pre-determined: regulated fee compression forces the roll-up, 61–94% cash conversion funds it, merger review blocks every strategic buyer — and a top-tier listed PG trades at 0–5.5× EV/EBITDA.

Sector research Payment infrastructure PG · VAN

Korea Payment Infrastructure — the deck

All research & track record

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Recruiters receive the access password along with the submitted CV.

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03 — PLAYHOUSE

PLAYHOUSE

Try out the things I've built. More if you enter the Playhouse.

Enter the PLAYHOUSE
04 — NOTES

NOTES

How the things in the Playhouse actually work — and what I got wrong building them. Three below; the rest are in the NOTES.

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