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Hashed's Kim Yong-beom was the former Vice Minister at Korea's Ministry of Economy and Finance.
Jun 6, 2025, 7:50 p.m.
Korea's new President, Lee Jae-myung, has appointed the CEO of Hashed Research, Kim Yong-beom, to be the Chief Policy Officer of Korea's Presidential Office.
A very sad day at @hashed_official. The new president just stole the CEO of our proud think tank, Hashed Open Research.
He’s now Chief Presidential Secretary for Policy —
a minister-level position, and arguably the most crypto-native and Web3-friendly official in Korean… pic.twitter.com/VS2ouCjgRa
Before leading Hashed Research, crypto fund Hashed's think tank, Kim was the Vice Minister of Economy and Finance during the Moon Jae-in administration.
In a previous interview with CoinDesk, Simon Kim, the CEO of Hashed, stated that the Lee administration will be crypto-friendly and that local regulators are closely monitoring crypto policy developments in the U.S with an aim to emulate them.
One of the first policy initiatives Kim Yong-beom might be working on is a Won-based stablecoin, which was identified by newly elected President Lee as a priority to "prevent national wealth from leaking overseas."
Sam Reynolds
Sam Reynolds is a senior reporter based in Asia. Sam was part of the CoinDesk team that won the 2023 Gerald Loeb award in the breaking news category for coverage of FTX's collapse. Prior to CoinDesk, he was a reporter with Blockworks and a semiconductor analyst with IDC.
