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LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD FOR INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS
ROK is an independent research advisory firm. We guide you to minimize the information gap between foreign and local investors in Northeast Asia with a focus in Korea, Taiwan and Japan.
Meet the Team
Ken S Kim
Soohyun Cho
Soohyun Cho
Founder • CEO
Ken has 24 years of sell side experience ranging from investment banking, the equity research, to hedge fund analyst to research sales. He has extensive experience in Asia equities having first dealt with it during the IMF Monetary crisis in 1999. He also lived in Asia (Singapore, South Korea) covering Asian companies as well as working as a buyside analyst before moving to the US. Ken has a Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Michigan. Ken is bilingual in English and Korean.
Soohyun Cho
Soohyun Cho
Soohyun Cho
Director of Quality Control
Soohyun has 12 years of experience in Asian equity sales, mainly as a Korea specialist, having worked at Deutsche Bank, Hyundai Securities, and Samsung Securities. She holds a Masters in Financial Engineering from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and a BA in Business from Yonsei University. Soo has worked in South Korea and is bilingual. She currently resides in NY with her husband and two children.