Park Young-ok

As of 2022, Park is a major shareholder of 5 to 10 IPOs, including Samsung Electronics, POSCO Holdings, Amore Pacific, Hankook Tire, Korea Economic TV, IDIS Holdings, Alton Sports, and National Treasure Design.

Park has been a professor at Chung-Ang University Graduate School of Industrial Start-up Management since 2013. In 2015, he became Director of Youth Future Network, as well as Co-representative of Unification and Sharing. In 2018, he became Associate President of the Korea Tax Association.

Following 9/11, Park became a full-time investor. Using some of his own money and some that he had borrowed from friends, he invested 3 billion won in plummeting companies, which recovered after six months. He established his own company, Smart Income, in 2005.: he made some of his best investment returns during the 2008 and 2013 financial crises.

Park’s initial stock of 45 million won in 1998 was increased by 5,000 times. As of 2022, he owns more than 200 billion won in stocks in public record. Park’s favored sector to accompany is agriculture

After serving as fund manager for Hyundai Investment Research Institute, Daishin Securities and International Investment Advisory, Park became head of Kyobo Securities’ Apgujeong branch in 1997.

Young-ok went to Chung-Ang University on a full scholarship. He graduated in 1982 with a Bachelor in Business Administration. He then acquired a Master of Finance Management at the Graduate School of International Business Administration.

Park Young-ok (Korean: 박영옥, born April 28, 1961) is a South Korean investor. Known as Stock Farmer, he is the chairman and CEO of Smart Income Group.