Richard Jung, former CEO of Bithumb, Joins Block.one as Head of Korea

Seoul, Korea – JANUARY 13, 2018 -- Block.one, a leader in developing blockchain software solutions, has announced today that Richard Jung, former CEO of BTC Korea (widely known as Bithumb), has joined Block.one to lead development of the EOS.IO community in Korea.

Before Bithumb, Jung served in senior executive positions for Alibaba's payment arm Alipay, and Tellabs. He also previously held executive positions with LG DACOM and Merrill Lynch. At Bithumb, Jung oversaw new fintech products and service development in Asia, with a focus on cryptocurrency, blockchain, mobile payment and O2O projects. Bithumb transactions surpassed US $6 Billion in 2017.

“I want to be part of a global game changer, and EOS is the type of innovative technology and, critically, correct decentralized trust model to scale its open-source software and do big things,” said Mr. Jung. “EOS is designed to be the currency of value exchanges to help any blockchain company or user to build their own business model. That is why it has chance to win and that is why I am excited to join.”

“Korea and its leading technology infrastructure is incredibly important to the blockchain community and Richard has been instrumental in the technological development here,” said Brendan Blumer, Block.one CEO. “We look forward to tapping into his experience running high-tech businesses as we partner with Korean companies and developers to build transformative applications for the EOS platform.”

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