Michael Kim
MBK Partners
$9.82B
as of 04/02/25
About Michael Kim
Michael Kim cofounded MBK Partners, the Seoul-based private equity firm that bears his initials and manages more than $31 billion in assets.
His ING Insurance Korea, which went public in 2017, was the first company wholly owned by a private equity firm to list on the Korean exchange.
In 2015 his firm's $6.1 billion takeover of Tesco's Korean operation, Homeplus, marked the country's biggest private-equity deal to date.
Kim was born in South Korea and was educated in the U.S. from preparatory school onward; he obtained U.S. citizenship along the way.
He is an avid art collector and sits on the board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Citizenship
United States of AmericaSource of wealth
Private equityResidence
Seoul, South KoreaMarital status
MarriedBirth date
10/01/63 (age 61)Number of children
2Education
Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Haverford CollegeSelf-made
self-madeMichael Kim’s fortune is worth
164K
troy ounces of gold
151K
median U.S. household
98K
median U.S. income
0.196%
U.S. credit card volume
0.039%
GDP of the United States
0.029%
United States debt
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In 2020, he published his first novel, "Offerings", which traces the life of an investment banker amid the 1997 Asian financial crisis.
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