Korea Macquarie Awards Scholarship to KAIST Business School Graduate Students in Finance

(From left) Inmoo Lee, Dean of KAIST College of Business, Minjung Kwon, student, Yonghwan Kim, CEO of Macquarie Korea.

[Asia Economy Reporter Minji Lee] Macquarie Korea announced on the 28th that it held a 'Scholarship Award Ceremony for KAIST Graduate School of Finance Students' at the Macquarie Korea office in Jongno, Seoul, in collaboration with the KAIST College of Business and Graduate School of Finance.

Macquarie Korea has donated approximately 1.6 billion KRW since the KAIST Graduate School of Finance was established in 2006. Macquarie Korea awarded scholarships of 3 million KRW each to six KAIST Graduate School of Finance students. To comply with COVID-19 prevention measures, the event was attended by Kim Yong-hwan, CEO of Macquarie Korea, Lee In-moo, Dean of the KAIST College of Business, and one representative student among the six scholarship recipients, while other scholarship students and officials participated via online live streaming.

Kim Yong-hwan, CEO of Macquarie Korea, said, "Macquarie Korea held the scholarship award ceremony for the second time this year to support KAIST and the development of Korea's financial industry and the cultivation of high-level financial talent," adding, "We plan to carry out various related programs in the future."

Lee In-moo, Dean of the KAIST College of Business, stated, "Since 2006, Macquarie Korea has been steadily working for the development of Korea's financial market," and added, "Going forward, the KAIST Graduate School of Finance will strive to nurture globally competitive financial professionals by strengthening expertise through specialized curricula in asset management, investment finance, financial engineering, and digital finance, as well as customized field-oriented education."

Meanwhile, the KAIST College of Business, which celebrated its 26th anniversary this year, launched Korea's first full-time MBA program in 1995. At the Seoul campus, seven MBA programs including the Digital Finance MBA, which was established last year at the Yeouido IFC, are operated along with master's and doctoral programs in management engineering and three industry-specialized MS programs.