The new president of Korea, Lee Jae-Myung, appointed the CEO of Hashed Research, Kim Yong-Beom, to be the director of policies of the presidential office of Korea.
A very sad day to @Hashed_official. The new president has just stealed the CEO of our proud Think Tank, chopped open research.
He is now in chief secretary to the presidential policy –
A post at the Minister’s level, and undoubtedly the most crypto-native civil servant and the web official in Korean… pic.twitter.com/vs2oucjgra– Simon Kim (@simonkim_nft) June 6, 2025
Before carrying out research on hash, the Crypto Fund Hashed reflection group Kim was vice-minister of the economy and finance during the administration of the moon.
In a previous interview with Coindesk, Simon Kim, the CEO of Hashed, said that the Lee administration would be friendly of crypto and that local regulators closely monitored cryptographic political developments in the United States in order to imitate them.
One of the first political initiatives in which Kim Yong-Beom could work is a Stablecoin of Won, which was identified by the newly elected president as a priority to “prevent the national wealth from fleeing abroad”.
