Cross-Border Investment  ·  Korea Platform

Helping Global Companies and
Investors Work With Korea —
and Korean Companies Expand Globally

Sohnamu Global is a Korea-based strategic investment and business platform focused on cross-border growth, investment, and partnerships involving Korea and the world.

Sohnamu works as an active partner rather than a detached advisor. We help shape the opportunity, bring together the right capital and counterparties, and stay engaged through execution.

We work with leading companies, investors, entrepreneurs, institutions, and strategic partners to uncover possibilities, build trusted relationships, and move complex business initiatives toward execution.

Seoul, KoreaGlobal reach, Korean depthAI data centers & digital infrastructure
Why Korea

Korea is emerging as a key business hub in the global economy

Korea stands at the center of many industries shaping the future.

SemiconductorsBatteriesAdvanced ManufacturingDigital InfrastructureFinanceConstructionEngineeringCultureBeautyEntertainmentConsumer Brands

For global companies and investors, Korea can be a market, a technology partner, a source of capital, a manufacturing base, or a platform for regional and global expansion.

For Korean companies, the world offers new paths for growth, investment, partnership, and influence.

Sohnamu helps make these Korea-linked possibilities real.

What We Do

We turn Korea-linked possibilities into practical business outcomes

Some opportunities are easy to describe but difficult to achieve.
We help partners understand the real landscape, identify the right counterparties,
frame the business case, and move from discussion to action.

Cross-Border Investment

Evaluating Korea-linked investment themes, identifying credible opportunities, and shaping paths toward execution.

Business Expansion

Supporting global companies entering Korea, Korean companies expanding overseas, and businesses using Korea as a platform for growth.

Strategic Partnerships

Bringing together companies, investors, entrepreneurs, institutions, and industry leaders where alignment can create long-term value.

Complex Case Execution

Working on difficult situations that require judgment, discretion, senior relationships, timing, and careful coordination.

Team

Global Reach, Korean Depth, Unmatched Experience

Sohnamu is led by people with deep experience across investment, business, public affairs, international partnerships, and Korea-linked execution.

Kook-Hyun Moon
Kook-Hyun Moon
Chairman
Eugene Yun
Eugene Yun
CEO
Kay Noh
Kay Noh
Partner
Kwang Kim
Kwang Kim
Partner
AI Data Centers & Digital Infrastructure

AI data centers are a major strategic interest

AI is not only a software story. It is also an infrastructure story, one that requires land, electricity, grid connection, cooling, fiber, capital, equipment, construction, and long-term operating expertise.

Korea holds many of the capabilities this new era demands. Sohnamu's role is to organize them into practical business and investment initiatives, and to support partnerships that can advance real AI data center development.

What a project must assemble

  • Powered land with credible grid access
  • Reliable, scalable energy strategy
  • Cooling architecture for dense AI loads
  • Fiber and connectivity
  • Capital formation and structuring
  • Operating and construction partners

Sohnamu helps Korea and the world work together

We bring together global perspective, Korean judgment, investment experience, business discipline, senior relationships, and practical execution capability.

KoreaCapitalCompaniesExecution
What We Do

We move Korea-linked opportunities from ambition to execution

Sohnamu works with companies, investors, entrepreneurs, institutions, and strategic partners
pursuing business and investment opportunities involving Korea and the world.

We engage deeply in the work required to make important opportunities succeed: shaping the strategy, building the right relationships, organizing the business case, aligning stakeholders, and helping drive execution.

Why Sohnamu

Good ideas need more than advice

Many opportunities look attractive from a distance.

A global company sees Korea as a promising market.
An investor sees value in a Korean business or asset.
A Korean company sees global demand for what it can build.
A strategic project has the right logic, but too many moving parts.

Then the real work begins.

Who are the right partners
Can the business case withstand serious review
Will investors believe the story
Can the local market be navigated
Are the stakeholders aligned
Is there a path to execution

Sohnamu works inside these questions. We do not stand at the edge of the process and simply advise.
We join the effort, help shape the direction, and participate as part of the execution team.

What We Bring

Judgment, relationships, capital sense,
and execution discipline

Sohnamu brings a rare combination of Korean market understanding, global perspective, investment experience, business judgment, senior relationships, and practical execution capability.

Cross-Border Investment

We help identify, assess, position, and advance investment opportunities involving Korea and global markets.

Business Expansion

We support global companies entering Korea, Korean companies expanding overseas, and businesses using Korea as a platform for wider growth.

Strategic Partnerships

We bring together companies, investors, institutions, and industry leaders where alignment can create lasting value.

Complex Execution

We participate in difficult situations where progress requires discretion, judgment, senior engagement, and careful coordination.

Korea as a Business Platform

Korea can be a market, partner, supplier, and gateway

Korea is becoming more important to global business, with deep strengths in semiconductors, batteries, electronics, advanced manufacturing, construction, engineering, finance, infrastructure, culture, and consumer brands.

For global companies, Korea can provide customers, technology, capital, industrial partners, supply-chain depth, and regional relevance. For Korean companies, global markets offer scale, capital, distribution, partnerships, and influence.

Sohnamu helps both sides understand where the real openings are and how to pursue them with discipline.

Market
Capital source
Industrial base
Technology partner
Regional platform
Global launchpad
Our work

Focused where Korea can matter globally

AI Data Centers & Digital Infrastructure

Bringing powered sites, investors, operators, Korean industrial companies, and financial institutions together around the infrastructure of the AI era.

Technology & Advanced Industry

Semiconductors, electronics, batteries, mobility, robotics, advanced materials, and industrial technology.

Energy & Infrastructure

Initiatives where power, physical infrastructure, capital, and long-term execution must come together.

Investment & Financial Partnerships

Engaging investors, financial institutions, companies, and project sponsors on Korea-linked investment initiatives.

Consumer, Culture & Brand Expansion

Opportunities connected to Korea's global influence in beauty, entertainment, food, lifestyle, culture, and consumer brands.

How We Work

We stay close to the action

01
Clarify the objective
02
Shape the story
03
Identify the right counterparties
04
Test the business case
05
Engage stakeholders
06
Support transaction and partnership discussions
07
Help move toward execution

Our role changes depending on the situation. Sometimes we are a strategic partner, sometimes a bridge to capital, sometimes we help open doors, sometimes we help organize a difficult process. Often we do several of these at once.
The common thread is simple: we stay close to the work until the path becomes real.

Great opportunities need people who can help make them happen

Strategic Focus

AI Data Centers and Digital Infrastructure

Artificial intelligence is moving into the physical world. Every breakthrough model, enterprise application, sovereign AI strategy, and next-generation cloud platform depends on an immense industrial foundation: power, land, cooling, connectivity, equipment, capital, construction, and trusted execution.

Sohnamu is placing AI data centers and digital infrastructure at the heart of its strategic work, bringing together Korea's industrial capabilities, global investors, powered sites, financial institutions, strategic partners, and public-sector stakeholders.

The Scarcity Behind the Boom

Demand is everywhere; executable capacity is rare

AI data centers are among the most difficult infrastructure assets in the modern economy. A promising site can fail without power.
A strong investor can hesitate without permits. A global operator can pause without local trust.
The challenge is orchestration: every essential element must arrive in the right sequence.

Powered Land

Sites with credible access to large-scale electricity, grid connection, zoning, access, and expansion potential.

Energy Strategy

Power arrangements that are reliable, scalable, financially viable, and aligned with long-term demand.

Cooling Architecture

Thermal systems capable of supporting dense AI computing loads and future equipment evolution.

Fiber & Connectivity

Resilient digital links to cloud platforms, customers, telecom networks, and international routes.

Capital Formation

Structures that can attract strategic investors, infrastructure funds, lenders, sponsors, and long-term partners.

Operating Partnerships

Developers, operators, utilities, construction firms, and technology companies moving in alignment.

The real prize is executable capacity.

Korea's Infrastructure Moment

Korea has the industrial depth to help power the AI age

Few countries combine semiconductor leadership, advanced electronics, batteries, telecom networks, construction capability, engineering discipline, power equipment, industrial materials, and financial sophistication in one economy. AI data centers reward exactly these strengths.

Development Location

Korea can host AI campuses where land, power, grid access, permitting, connectivity, capital, and partner alignment are assembled with discipline.

Industrial Supplier

Korean companies can support AI infrastructure globally through construction, engineering, electrical systems, cooling, telecom, batteries, materials, and project services.

Strategic Platform

Korea can stand between global capital, advanced industry, technology demand, and Asia's expanding digital infrastructure needs.

Where Sohnamu Enters the Story

We turn fragmented interests into investable projects

AI infrastructure projects rarely advance because one party has ambition.
They advance when many parties begin to trust the same path.
Sohnamu works across these points of friction.

01
Identify
Powered sites, strategic investors, operators, technology partners, and Korean industrial participants.
02
Assess
Land, power, grid connection, cooling, permitting, connectivity, capital needs, and execution risk.
03
Engage
Companies, investors, financial institutions, operators, utilities, and public-sector stakeholders.
04
Structure
Partnership models, transaction pathways, investor positioning, and diligence preparation.
05
Advance
Complex initiatives from concept toward practical, financeable, and executable outcomes.
The New Geography of Power

Energy will decide where AI infrastructure can grow

Electricity is becoming the geography of artificial intelligence. Where power is available, scalable, reliable, and economically viable, AI infrastructure can grow. Where power is constrained, delayed, or uncertain, even the strongest business plan weakens.

As campuses move from tens of megawatts toward gigawatt-class ambitions, energy strategy becomes central to national competitiveness, corporate growth, and investment feasibility. Sohnamu approaches AI data centers through this energy lens.

Long-Term Energy Horizon

Sohnamu is examining advanced power partnerships, integrated energy infrastructure, and the potential role of small modular reactors as part of the long-term energy landscape for AI data centers.

Building the partnerships that build AI infrastructure

Korea Platform

Korea is small on the map and large in the world

Korea is one of the world's most concentrated business platforms. It builds semiconductors, batteries, ships, cars, buildings, networks, brands, culture, and global companies. It moves fast. It competes hard. It exports ambition.

For global companies and investors, Korea can be a market, partner, capital source, technology base, manufacturing platform, or gateway into Asia.
For Korean companies, the world offers scale, capital, customers, partners, and influence. Sohnamu helps both sides move with confidence.

Why Korea

Korea builds things the world needs

Advanced ManufacturingSemiconductorsBatteriesElectronicsMobilityShipbuildingConstructionEngineeringTelecom NetworksFinancial InstitutionsBeautyEntertainmentFoodCultureConsumer Brands

Korea has a rare mix of industrial depth, technology leadership, disciplined execution, and cultural reach.
That combination puts Korea in a strong position to be competitive in the economy.

Korea's Complexity

Korea rewards the well-prepared

Korea is sophisticated, fast-moving, relationship-driven, and demanding. That is what makes it powerful. It is also what makes it easy to misread.

Korea is not a market for casual entry. It rewards preparation, judgment, patience, relationships, and execution discipline. For committed partners, that is the opening.

A global company may see a promising market but underestimate how trust is built.
An investor may identify value but miss the real decision path.
A Korean company may have global potential but lack the right international structure.
A sound project may stall because regulation, financing, timing, and stakeholders do not move together.
Sohnamu's Role

Turning complexity into business advantage

We bring Korean market understanding, global perspective, senior relationships, investment experience, and practical execution capability,
then engage in the work itself.

Into Korea

For global companies, investors, and institutions seeking to enter or engage Korea.

From Korea

For Korean companies, entrepreneurs, and project sponsors expanding internationally.

Through Korea

For partners using Korea's industrial base, capital, technology, and relationships as part of a broader global strategy.

Where Korea Can Matter Globally

From industrial power to cultural influence

AI Data Centers & Digital Infrastructure

A development location, industrial supplier, technology partner, and strategic platform for the AI era.

Advanced Industry & Technology

Semiconductors, batteries, electronics, mobility, robotics, advanced materials, and precision manufacturing.

Energy & Infrastructure

Power, grid access, construction, engineering, energy strategy, and long-term infrastructure development.

Investment & Financial Partnerships

Korea-linked opportunities involving investors, financial institutions, corporate groups, and sponsors.

Consumer, Culture & Brand Expansion

Beauty, entertainment, food, lifestyle, design, content, and Korean cultural influence moving across borders.

Build with Korea, not around it

Representative Work

Complex Opportunities, Carefully Shaped

From tooth implants to EV battery giga plants, Sohnamu's representative work spans industries, borders, investors, companies, public stakeholders, and strategic partners.

The common thread is not sector. It is complexity: situations where the business logic is real, the parties are willing, and the path forward must be shaped with judgment.

The Nature of the Work

Great opportunities often arrive formless

Promising asset, incomplete story
Strong company, uncertain market
Available capital, unclear path
Powerful technology, missing partners
Strategic infrastructure, larger purpose waiting

Sohnamu is often invited into unfinished moments, where the task is to clarify the logic, identify the parties, test the path, and create the conditions for execution.

Representative Themes

The patterns behind the work

AI Data Centers & Digital Infrastructure

Powered sites, global operators, strategic investors, Korean industrial partners, financial institutions, and public-sector stakeholders.

Cross-Border Investment

Assets, investors, counterparties, diligence, structure, and execution brought into a credible path.

Market Entry & Expansion

Global companies entering Korea, Korean companies moving outward, and Korea used as a platform for wider growth.

Strategic Partnerships

Corporate, technology, financial, infrastructure, and operating relationships where alignment changes the outcome.

Energy & Advanced Industry

Power, EV batteries, semiconductors, manufacturing, engineering, infrastructure, and supply-chain opportunities.

Difficult Mandates

Sensitive negotiations, unclear stakeholder maps, stalled initiatives, regulatory uncertainty, and matters requiring careful judgment.

Partner Value

What our partners gain

Complex opportunities do not need more noise.
They need clarity, structure, confidence, access, momentum, and judgment.

A compelling narrative brings the asset into focus.
A disciplined structure gives capital a reason to move.
Credible counterparties create the conditions for execution.
Careful sequencing keeps promising ideas from stalling.

Sohnamu enters the work with practical purpose: shape the path, open the necessary conversations, align stakeholders, and move the opportunity toward execution.

Team

Global Reach, Korean Depth, Unmatched Experience

Sohnamu is led by professionals with deep experience across investment, business, public affairs, international partnerships, and Korea-linked execution.

Our work is personal, close to the matter, and carried by people who stay engaged. We bring practical experience, trusted relationships, Korean market understanding, and global perspective to opportunities that require careful execution.

← Team Chairman

Kook-Hyun Moon

Kook-Hyun Moon

Kook-Hyun Moon is one of Korea's most respected business leaders, known for transforming Yuhan-Kimberly into one of Korea and Asia's most admired companies during his 13-year tenure as CEO. He also served as Group President and Chairman of Kimberly-Clark North Asia.

His career spans business leadership, environmental stewardship, workplace innovation, public service, and international collaboration. He launched Korea's pioneering Keep Korea Green campaign, received the UNEP Global 500 Roll of Honor, chaired the Presidential Special Committee on People-Centered New Competitiveness, founded the Peter Drucker Society of Korea, co-founded the International Electric Vehicle Expo, and established the Silicon Valley Business Forum.

At Sohnamu, Chairman Moon brings rare stature, institutional trust, and a lifelong record of building bridges among business, society, government, industry, and global partners.

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← Team CEO

Eugene Yun

Eugene Yun

Eugene Yun brings more than 30 years of experience in international finance, investment, economics, and cross-border business development. His work has spanned Asia, the Middle East, North America, Europe, and Africa, with a focus on complex Korea-linked opportunities involving capital, companies, institutions, and global partners.

He began his career as an economics professor at the University of British Columbia, later served as senior economist and editorial writer at Maeil Kyungje Shinmoon, and held senior roles at Schroder Securities and Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, the investment banking arm of Deutsche Bank. During the Asian financial crisis, he formed a joint venture with George Soros to pursue private equity opportunities. In 2008, he founded Eos Investment Partners in Seoul.

At Sohnamu, Eugene leads work on strategic investment, cross-border partnerships, and complex business opportunities, bringing global perspective, economic discipline, investment experience, and a long-standing international network.

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← Team Partner

Kay Noh

Kay Noh

Kay Noh brings deep experience across accounting, investment, venture incubation, corporate governance, institutional oversight, and entrepreneurship. A graduate of Seoul National University and a Certified Public Accountant, she began her career at Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers before founding Mirae Venture Consulting and Mirae Accounting Company.

Her career includes leadership roles as CEO of Ecount, Auditor of Hankyoreh Newspaper, Managing Director at Golden Bridge Securities, Auditor of the National Pension Service, and Board Member and Chair of the Audit Committee at KEPCO. Since co-founding Eos Investment Partners with Eugene Yun in 2008, she has worked on complex cross-border investment projects as an analyst, negotiator, advisor, and mentor.

At Sohnamu, Kay brings financial rigor, governance experience, investment discipline, and deep credibility across Korea's business, public institutional, venture, and women entrepreneur communities.

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← Team Partner

Kwang Kim

Kwang Kim

Kwang Kim brings more than 20 years of experience advising global investors, C-suite executives, public-sector leaders, foundations, and development institutions on sustainable investment, business strategy, public-private collaboration, and social impact.

He has held leadership roles with the International Finance Corporation and the World Bank, working across Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, South Asia, and Central Asia on competitiveness, economic diversification, blended finance, climate funding, and investment de-risking. He is also a board member of the Economics of Mutuality Group, senior advisor to its private equity arm, former Country Representative of The Asia Foundation, and founder of Impact for Breakfast Seoul.

At Sohnamu, Kwang brings global development experience, impact investment networks, family office relationships, and a practical ability to work across business, government, capital, and social purpose.

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← Team Chief New Business Officer

Yvonne Cha

Yvonne Cha

Yvonne Cha brings more than 20 years of experience across corporate management, government relations, public policy, and project finance. With a strong background in public health and medical science—including doctoral coursework in preventive medicine at Pusan National University—she specializes in navigating complex regulatory environments for large-scale public-private development initiatives.

Most recently, Yvonne served as Director at Urban Oil Corporation, where she managed government affairs, project finance, and corporate operations. In this role, she successfully led site procurement across 38 local governments, secured national budget expansions through ministerial outreach, and anchored a major underground complex plant R&D project backed by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. Her extensive leadership background also includes serving as an elected member of the Yangsan City Council and holding professional roles within the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

At Sohnamu, Yvonne leverages her deep understanding of local government licensing, political acumen, and risk management to drive new business initiatives, secure strategic sites, and orchestrate complex public-private partnerships.

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← Team Vice President, Business Development

Sung-Gyu “Senya” Yoon

Sung-Gyu Yoon

Sung-Gyu “Senya” Yoon brings more than 20 years of deep technical and entrepreneurial experience across chemical engineering, green technology, process innovation, and waste-to-energy project management. A graduate of Dankook University with a degree in Chemical Engineering, his career focuses heavily on developing and commercializing proprietary, high-economy technologies for sustainable environmental solutions.

He has served as President and Controlling Stockholder of Urban Oil Corporation, where he led the establishment and operational planning of large-scale waste oil processing facilities utilizing cutting-edge room-temperature separation technologies. Previously, as CTO/COO and Controlling Stockholder of Bizel Co. Ltd., he spearheaded the company’s growth from a pilot line operation into a government-licensed biodiesel supplier. His leadership at Bizel was instrumental in securing major international capital—including a $4.0 million funding round from Goldman Sachs and a $52.3 million investment agreement with Merrill Lynch PCG—and establishing key global business partnerships with entities such as BP.

At Sohnamu, Senya brings profound industrial technology expertise, a proven track record of securing institutional venture funding, and practical execution capabilities in green field infrastructure development, clean energy and environmental tech sectors.

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← Team Auditor

Young-Soo (Erika) Oh

Young-Soo Oh

Young-Soo (Erika) Oh brings a distinguished 30-year track record in global asset management, institutional fiduciary stewardship, and macro-level risk mitigation. She is highly regarded for her exceptional strengths in designing robust governance frameworks, pioneering sustainable investment strategies, and reconciling complex, multi-stakeholder corporate alignments.

Erika has led multi-billion-dollar portfolios at Korea’s top public pension funds, including managing U$2 billion in global assets at GEPS and a U$7 billion portfolio at the National Pension Service (NPS). Her career highlights include establishing the first active sustainable investment (SRI) programs for Korean public pensions, founding the NPS New York office to build global wealth networks, and managing high-stakes credit-risk structures during major industrial restructurings at Korea Exchange Bank and Samjong KPMG FAS.

At Sohnamu, Erika oversees corporate governance, financial integrity, and internal control practices. Her combined expertise in cross-border investment compliance and independent operational review provides a foundational framework of institutional trust and fiduciary discipline across all global partnership activities.

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Contact

Continuing the Conversation

Sohnamu's work is built through relationships, trust, and serious conversations. We welcome conversations with companies, investors, institutions, entrepreneurs, and strategic partners exploring Korea-linked opportunities that require experience, structure, relationships, and execution.

Areas for Discussion

  • AI data centers and digital infrastructure
  • Cross-border investment
  • Korea market entry
  • Global expansion from Korea
  • Strategic partnerships
  • Energy and infrastructure
  • Complex Korea-linked opportunities

Direct Contact

For future collaboration, partnership discussions, or Korea-linked opportunities already under consideration, please contact Sohnamu directly.

Sohnamu
Seoul, Korea
Email: info@sohnamu.com
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