DK Yi - President
Mr. Yi is a founder of Eastern Investment and has extensive expertise in both M&A and general corporate advisory services.

He is a proven entrepreneur with a track record in the advertising and telecommunications industries, including founding the fifth largest advertising agency in Korea.
Mr. Yi is also an experienced corporate officer with a strong background in corporate planning, restructuring, marketing, accounting, and investor relations. At Eastern Investment, he has demonstrated strong leadership by originating many corporate finance deals, both domestic
and cross-border, and by designing innovative deal structures that overcome complicated regulations and constraints confronting clients.

Mr. Yi graduated magna cum laude from UCLA where he received his BA in Economics and attended the PhD program in Economics at the University of Chicago.
 
     
 
Hong-Kyu Park - Managing Director

Mr. Park has been active in the financial industry, both as an equity analyst and more recently, as the Vice President of Corporate Finance at Eastern Investment.

Mr. Park has been deeply involved in a number of corporate advisory services primarily related to telecommunications and Internet industries and has closed a number of domestic and cross-border transactions worth over US$3 billion. Prior to joining Eastern Investment, he was a senior equity analyst at ABN Amro (formerly HG Asia) and BZW Securities, where he was responsible for coverage of wide range of

industries from telecommunications to cement. Often quoted on The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Reuters, Mr. Park was ranked 9th best analyst for Korea by Asiamoney in 1997.

Mr. Park has a BS in Accounting from George Mason University and an MBA from Babson College.
 
     
 
W. Edward Kim - Managing Director

Mr. Kim has extensive experience in financial services with varied industry sector exposure. Mr. Kim has been involved in various M&A transactions and corporate advisory at Eastern Investment covering telecom and technology related industries.

Mr. Kim has held various investment banking and direct investment positions prior to joining Eastern Investment including the head of investment banking division at Meritz Securities, Director of WNI venture capital and the head of corporate finance at Hannuri-Salomon Brothers Securities.

Furthermore, Mr. Kim¡¯s experience encompasses corporate development and strategic planning with conglomerate groups in Korea as well as real estate investment experience in US.

Mr. Kim holds a BA in Urban Economics & Real Estate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from the University of Chicago.