KIM So Young is a Professor of Economics at Seoul National University. He served as Vice Chairman of the Financial Services Commission (2022–2025), concurrently chairing the Securities and Futures Commission and the Virtual Asset Committee. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and previously held faculty positions at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
His research focuses on international finance, open-economy macroeconomics, monetary economics, and financial economics. He has published widely in leading journals, including Journal of Monetary Economics and Journal of International Economics, with over 7,900 citations (Google Scholar). Professor KIM has received multiple prestigious awards, including the Tae Sung Kim Research Award, the Chung Ram Research Award, and the Maeil Business Newspaper Economist Award. He has been affiliated with institutions such as the IMF, BIS, AMRO, ADB, Bank of Korea, Princeton University, USC, and CEPR.
He currently serves as President of Korea Economic Vision Networks, Korea KAEA, and Korea IEFS, and as Vice-President of the Korean Economic Association, the Korea Money and Finance Association, and the Korea International Finance Association.