Prof. Changmin CHUN has been teaching and researching as professor of law at Seoul National University of Science and Technology since August 2019 notably focused on the areas of private international law, capital markets law, fintech regulation, and cryptoasset regulation, etc. He is actively advising the financial supervisory authority and the market infrastructure firms in the Korean capital markets. Prof. Chun has been served as Director of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation from June 2018 to June 2024.
Before joining the University, Prof. Chun worked for the Korea Capital Market Institute (KCMI) for about 8 years. In the KCMI, Prof. Chun was mainly in charge of legal research of a wide range of regulatory issues in relation to capital markets. Before joining the KCMI, Prof. Chun worked for almost 9 years for the Korea Securities Depository (KSD), the sole central securities depository in Korea. In the KSD, Prof. Chun dealt with the several back-office practices with regard to the beneficial shareholders' rights exercise, CSD-linkages, local custodian operations, international securities transactions, etc. Prof. Chun is also currently serving as member of the Committee of Innovative Finance that is one of the key committees of the Korea financial supervisory authority, i.e the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) from 2022 and served as member of the Committee of Capital Market Investigation and Deliberation the FSC. From 2014 to 2021, Mr. Chun served as Director of General Affairs of the Korea Private International Law Association.
Prof. Chun got his doctoral degree (Dr. iur.) from the University of Hamburg in Germany with the grade of summa cum laude. His doctoral dissertation has been published by Springer Verlag with the title of “Cross-border Transactions of Intermediated Securities: A Comparative Analysis in Substantive Law and Private International Law”. He also studied at McGill University in Canada and University of Minnesota in the U.S. for his LL.M. degrees.