Korea Leadership
Partner with Colliers' leading commercial real estate agents and experts providing services for developers, investors, landlords or occupiers in Korea.
The team shaping our vision
Our executives embrace the enterprising spirit of Colliers.
They are passionate, committed leaders who share a common goal: to accelerate the success of everyone associated with our company, including our clients, sales professionals, support staff, communities and business partners.
Sungwook Cho is the Head of Capital Markets & Investment Services at Colliers International Korea. He is an industry veteran with 20+ years of commercial real estate experience, recording more than USD 15 billion in transaction volume with a proven track record that includes many landmark assets across the commercial, retail, and development sectors in Korea.
Over the many years of experience in commercial real estate, he has well-established a wide range of relationships with domestic institutional clients and asset management companies.
He is passionate to leverage his industry experience to further expand relationships with clients overseas and to collaborate with experts across the globe to secure international capital from Colliers’ global network of clients.
Capital Markets & Investment Services Leaders
Sungwook Cho is the Head of Capital Markets & Investment Services at Colliers International Korea. He is an industry veteran with 20+ years of commercial real estate experience, recording more than USD 15 billion in transaction volume with a proven track record that includes many landmark assets across the commercial, retail, and development sectors in Korea.
Over the many years of experience in commercial real estate, he has well-established a wide range of relationships with domestic institutional clients and asset management companies.
He is passionate to leverage his industry experience to further expand relationships with clients overseas and to collaborate with experts across the globe to secure international capital from Colliers’ global network of clients.
Minsoo Yuk is an experienced real estate professional with more than 10 years both in investment advisory and property management. He has advised 22 assets with accumulated GFA of c. 292,000py (10,390,000 sf), equivalent to KRW 6.5 trillion (USD 5.4 bn) and also managed 15 properties with accumulated GFA of c. 110,000py (3,914,000 sf).
He is a certified real estate asset manager and owns a certification by Korea Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (KAREIT)
Office Services Leaders
Jay is currently the Head of Colliers’ Office & Industrial Services team in Korea. he has over 17 years of real estate market experience in Seoul for many years he has been focused on Office & Industrial Services. Strong experience in working on a range of both Korean domestic firms. With a proven track record in real estate field as a Senior director, He has successfully nurtured and developed lasting business relationships with a wide range of clients from institutional investors to individual landlords, developers and local conglomerates. Based on the well-maintained relationships, he has successfully closed multiple deals with various projects as indicated on the right, including financial services clients.
Suah is currently Director of Colliers International Korea Office & Industrial Services team. Suah has over 13 years' experience in commercial real estate market, working in global investors, occupiers and co-working operator sides.
My expertise includes site selection, leasing, acquisition, disposition and portfolio strategy for global occupiers.
Because of my diversed experience in the industry, I have indepth knowledge in real estate market dynamics in the Korea market, providing real insight and value to my clients who already have presence in Korea or want to expand into Korea.
For Korean companies with overseas real estate, I also help with portfolio management, land/plant acquisition, leasing, and BTS projects in various parts of the world including not limited to United States, Latin America, CEE(Central Eastern Europe) and Oceania.
Industrial Services Leaders
Jay is currently the Head of Colliers’ Office & Industrial Services team in Korea. he has over 17 years of real estate market experience in Seoul for many years he has been focused on Office & Industrial Services. Strong experience in working on a range of both Korean domestic firms. With a proven track record in real estate field as a Senior director, He has successfully nurtured and developed lasting business relationships with a wide range of clients from institutional investors to individual landlords, developers and local conglomerates. Based on the well-maintained relationships, he has successfully closed multiple deals with various projects as indicated on the right, including financial services clients.
As Director of Colliers Korea, Joan is responsible for managing Korea Data Centre business, to lead the data centre project.
She plays a key role to develop and implement strategy from inception of Data Centre business including blueprints, site location, cashflow analysis, negotiation with buyer/seller and obtain permits to relevant government agencies.
Before joining Colliers in 2022, Joan has extensive work experience as a real estate professional with a focus on corporate real estate transaction.
She worked for Cushman & Wakefield from 2005 to 2012 to serve multinational companies with 2 major Data Centre ‘Built to Suit’ projects, and she was also leading a Data Centre development project with a size of 450,000 sqm in Siheung City in 2021.
Ji-hoon is the Director of office and industrial based in South Korea. With over 11 years of experiences in real estate business, Ji-hoon is a Licensed Real Estate Agent in Korea.
He provides consulting and agency service to a number of foreign clients and domestic corporate clients. During him career life, he experienced the highest and best use analysis and valuation of asset, feasibility study of industrial site and leasing consulting projects and transaction service for domestic corporate clients.
Prior to joining Colliers, Ji-hoon worked as a loan officer team leader for building developers in wefunding and also worked as a senior manager for Mirae Asset Consulting investment advisory team for 2 years.
Valuation and Advisory Services
Research Services Leaders
As Director of Korea, Judy is responsible for research outputs and play a major role to drive a more client-oriented research approach to support business win rate.
She provided various presentations or documents for clients' market reviews and collaborated with each team to answer client inquiries. She has built a good rapport and reputation with our clients through our services, which provide industry experts with consistently useful market information.
Judy has over 15 years of experience in real estate business and 6 years in IT industry. Prior to joining Colliers, she has served as a Head of Research for 7 years in Cushman & Wakefield Korea. She also had worked at Golden Bridge Property Management (Vanguarz Asset), Polaris HQ, LAN bird Technology Company, and Alibaba Korea.
Functional Support
Sooyeon is responsible for Human Resource Management in South Korea. Her prior work experiences include the HRM leadership positions at Cushman & Wakefield Korea, Specialized Korea and she began her career at Mars Incorporated Korea.