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Kang Hyoung-goo

강형구

Professor, Hanyang University

South KoreaAcademic

About

Kang Hyoung-goo is a finance academic. He holds a BA in economics from Seoul National University, completed doctoral coursework in economics at the University of Virginia and earned a PhD from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. After serving as an Air Force officer he worked in quantitative strategy at Lehman Brothers in Tokyo and at Accenture, and was a research fellow at Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.

He has taught at Hanyang University since 2010 and is a professor in its Department of Finance and Department of Computational Finance. He heads the Blockchain Business Center at Hanyang's Blockchain Research Institute and is editor-in-chief of Korea Business Review. He was president of the Korean Financial Management Association in 2024 and founded and sold Handa Partners, a machine-learning fintech firm.

He has advised the FSS and, since 2022, the exchange alliance DAXA. In 2025 he advised the Democratic Party's Digital Asset Task Force and sat on the Economy 1 subcommittee of the State Affairs Planning Committee. He argues that won stablecoins are coming regardless and that Korea should first build a shared platform run by competing firms, focused on trade and corporate settlement, to avoid dependence on dollar platforms. His research includes work on stablecoins and cross-border crypto market integration and on the Travel Rule.

Policy engagement

Lead speaker at the launch of KBIPA's digital asset task force (Aug 2025), making the case for won stablecoins. At a Sep 2026 forum urged a shared won stablecoin platform to avoid dependence on dollar platforms.

Source: Dealsite, 17 Sep 2026

Key actions

  1. Urged at a Dealsite blockchain forum that Korea build a shared won stablecoin platform before issuing coins, to protect monetary and data sovereignty.

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  2. Told a financial future forum that the value of digital assets lies in redesigning payment, distribution, funding and customer structures rather than creating tokens.

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  3. Gave the keynote at the launch of KBIPA's digital asset task force, saying won stablecoins will emerge whether Korea wants them or not.

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  4. Joined the State Affairs Planning Committee as an adviser, with a record of calling for a bitcoin spot ETF framework.

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