Mirae Asset Names Roh Yong-woo CEO of Digital X After 97.15% Korbit Stake

Roh Yong-woo Gets the Digital X Top Job

Mirae Asset Group has designated Roh Yong-woo, a vice president at Mirae Asset Securities, as the incoming chief executive of Digital X, the South Korean digital asset exchange it acquired this year under its previous name, Korbit. The venue, one of the country's longest-running trading platforms and a longtime fixture in roundups of the Best Crypto Exchanges, now answers to the conglomerate that bought it. The group announced the nomination on Thursday, November 5, and the company will work through a formal appointment sequence: confirmation at a shareholders' meeting and by the board of directors, followed by a change report to the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), the Korean agency that registers virtual asset service providers. Only once the FIU accepts the report and the meeting approves does Roh hold the post in a legal sense.

The incoming chief was born in 1968, graduated from Seoul National University with an economics degree and built his career inside the Mirae Asset system. He ran the securities firm's management innovation division from November 2021 to October 2022, then served as head of group risk management from November 2022 through October 2025, and since last November has worked in the innovation promotion team at Mirae Asset Securities. The group said it expects him to draw on that record in management innovation, risk control and digital asset institutional improvement to drive convergence between traditional finance and digital assets and to maximize synergies across its businesses. The nomination marks the first leadership change since the acquisition: Mirae Asset secured a 97.15% stake in Korbit this year through subsidiary Mirae Asset Consulting, and a management reshuffle at the exchange has been in motion since the deal handed the group control.

Oh Se-jin Steps Aside After Seven Years

Outgoing chief executive Oh Se-jin informed the company of his intention to resign for personal reasons. He joined Korbit in 2019, took the CEO seat in January 2020 and won three consecutive reappointments, steering the exchange for roughly seven years through its sale to Mirae Asset and the rebrand to Digital X. His departure hands the group's nominee a clean transition at a company that now sits inside one of Korea's largest financial conglomerates, with no internal successor contest to manage.

Mirae Asset 3.0 and the Wider Reshuffle

The appointment sits inside a broader reorganization the group runs under its Mirae Asset 3.0 strategy. The company has declared this year the first year of the 3.0 era and launched MAPS, a global investment platform meant to carry its traditional asset base into digital products. In the same reshuffle, 20% of newly promoted executives specialize in AI transformation, digital technology or information security, and the group raised the standing of its information security organization so it can run proactive vulnerability checks and strengthen its response to incidents touching customer assets and data. The promotion class reflects the same priorities: executives in their 40s account for 64% of those promoted, women for 17%, and 30% of the promotions come from wealth management and pension sales leadership. The group plans to apply AI and digital technology across the whole organization to sharpen a platform that spans both traditional and digital assets.

The 97.15% Mandate

The gates that remain are procedural. With a 97.15% owner nominating its own executive, the FIU change report and the shareholders' meeting should clear as formalities, though the regulator's review of a chief executive's fitness is never automatic under Korea's registration regime. The substance sits in integration. Full control lets Mirae Asset fold Digital X into the same stack as MAPS and its securities arm, and the group's stated push toward tokenized Real-World Assets gives the exchange a product lane beyond plain spot trading. As the Bank of Korea advances its CBDC work and the boundary between brokerage and exchange services keeps thinning, a risk-management veteran in the chair positions the platform for the compliance-heavy phase of the market.