Kihoon Lee Asia Business Development Advisor

Kihoon Lee has professional expertise in education, the cryptocurrency industry, and business strategy development. After 18 years of developing and running education businesses, he began working in the blockchain space in 2015 after he saw the vast potential the future of the cryptocurrency market promises. In 2017, he launched an AI-driven trading bot software, and now, he runs one of the largest GPU mining farms in Korea. To date, his most recent academic venture, UnU Global, has a presence in seven countries, including Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, and Taiwan. Founded in 1999, his first education business began as a private language tutoring institute in South Korea, and over the course of 15 years, it scaled to accommodate over 1,800 franchised institutes nationwide. In 2009, he developed software for an IMT automated language learning system, eventually acquiring three patents for the invention. After introducing this system to elementary schools affiliated with the Seoul National University of Education in 2010, Lee went on to found the UNU Education Group in 2013. In March 2016, the Chinese government granted him the right to oversee the assessment of Chinese language proficiency (HKC) in Korea and Japan. He is managing five Chinese language schools in Korea and plans to expand this educational network to overseas countries in the near future.

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