BoA Merrill hires Korea head from Credit Suisse

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has hired SeungGu Park from Credit Suisse to head its Korea business, according to an email sent to the bank’s staff in Seoul yesterday.

Sung Eun Ahn

Park fills a gap left by the departure of Sung Eun Ahn, who quit in April this year to run Deutsche Bank’s Korea business a position he will take up on July 1. Ahn had been chief executive and head of investment banking at BoA Merrill in Korea since 2004.

After a three-month period of leave, Park will start as country executive at...