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Eunjo Chon

Senior PartnerSeoul

​​Collaborates with clients from various consumer-facing industries and financial sectors to redefine their corporate-transformation aspiration. Design distribution-channel and product strategies, steer value-enhancement and risk-management framework, and support large scale M&A activities.​

Eunjo is a core leader of McKinsey’s Asian Financial Services Practice, working with various financial institutions and principal investors across many Asian markets. He is also a core leader of McKinsey’s Growth, Marketing & Sales Practice in Asia, orchestrating potential partnership and alliances to bring in the most cutting-edge capabilities for our client services. His main focus is helping his clients’ top management redefine their strategies and steer their mind-sets toward “value-growth” opportunities.

His recent client engagements include the following:

  • supporting a large Korean conglomerate redefine their business portfoio and drive substantial value enhancement by optimizing customer proposition and pricing, improving operational efficiencies and enhancing financial structure

  • developing a global insurance group’s pan-Asia strategy for health insurance, one of the fastest growing and most profitable opportunities in the region, which includes Korea, Japan and other Asian countries

  • revisiting a global banking group’s Japan strategy, from a comprehensive market scanning to a deep dive into new wealth-management business strategies centered around the country’s growing mass-affluent segment

  • supporting a leading Asian financial group’s post-merger value improvement by creating a new synergy scheme across subsidiaries, including banking, securities, asset management, and insurance 

Eunjo has also spent three-and-a-half and nine years, respectively, at McKinsey’s New York and Tokyo offices serving both global and local diversified conglomerates, financial institutions, capital-markets infrastructure, and regulatory authorities. He is also a core member of the firm’s Risk Management Practice, actively applying cutting-edge tools and ideas to enhance his clients’ resilience across economic cycles.

He is a frequent speaker at various conferences sponsored by industry associations and media, and has authored a number of articles. In addition, Eunjo has been members of several government-sponsored industry committees, and he is the father of five children.

Published work

"Wealth managers vie for Korean workers getting record AI bonuses," Bloomberg News, June 2026

"South Korea's top 10 exports have stayed the same for 20 years, like a frog in a boiling pot," Chosun Ilbo, January 2025

How KB Financial Group navigates and curates banking,” McKinsey & Company, April 2023

Will Asian insurers make the right choices for health insurance?,” McKinsey & Company, February 18, 2021

Education

Harvard Business School, Harvard University
MBA

Seoul National University
Bachelor's degree, Business Management