Michael Kim: The Korean Financier Quietly Re-Colonizing Global Markets—One Leveraged Buyout at a Time
SEOUL—Somewhere in the gleaming, algorithmic hive of Gangnam, a man named Michael Kim is quietly re-writing the rules of global capitalism, one leveraged buyout at a time. To the average Seoulite he is merely another well-tailored ghost gliding through steel lobbies; to the rest of the planet he is the Korean Midas who turns conglomerate…