2025 Mirae Asset Securities
Host Organization: Mirae Asset Securities
Website: https://english.securities.miraeasset.com
Organization Profile: Founded in 1999, Mirae Asset Securities is a leading securities firm in Asia and the top IB firm in Korea headquartered in Seoul, Korea. Drawing on the expertise of our global network of over 5,000 professionals in 15 markets including Korea, the US, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Indonesia, we operate a globally diversified investment platform, providing investors with a wide variety of investment solutions. We are continuing to expand our global footprint to become one of the world's top-tier IB, and offer competitive services across all core businesses, including IB, S&T, and wealth management, to help our clients find appropriate financial solutions and achieve their long-term goals.
City: Seoul
Internship format: In-person
Internship Department: Students may identify their top two preferred departments.
- IB (Investment Banking)
- Trading
- Research Center
- Global Business
Department profile:
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IB (Investment Banking): Provides corporate clients with growth opportunities by structuring and executing various financial solutions including IPO, pre-IPO, Mezzanine, corporate bonds, acquisition financing, and project financing through which our investors can share the results of such growth
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Trading: Provides a wide range of financial products in response to the diverse types of investment needs and preferences of our domestic and global clients such as stock, bonds, foreign currencies, and OTC derivatives
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Research Center: Contributes to growing clients’ assets and improving sales by analyzing and preparing forecast data on the overall economy and financial markets both locally and globally
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Global Business: Contributes to achieving global business innovation by building regionally localized business models and increasing sales synergies between the HQ and overseas branches
Project description:
IB:
- Assist with writing proposals for clients regarding corporate financing solutions such as IPOs, leveraged finance, bond issuance, and M&A deals
- Conduct research on equity capital markets, industries, and regulations to find domestic and global investment opportunities
Trading:
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Learn various trading strategies for financial products such as credit, interest rates, FX, equity-linked products, and global equities in the financial market
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Conduct research on domestic and global markets and various financial products to support developing profitable trading strategies
Research Center:
- Conduct research on global economy and government policies, domestic/foreign financial markets, industries, and companies
- Coordinate and support domestic and global sales activities
Global Business:
- Review and develop global business strategies by analyzing performance status of overseas subsidiaries
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Manage coordination and communication between the HQ and overseas subsidiaries
Number of Opening(s): 1 per department
Work Hours and Internship Start/End Dates: (Monday to Friday, June 16 – August 8, 2025): Full time/Five days a week, 8am-5pm
Work attire: Business Casual
Local Language: Korean
Local Language level needed: Basic reading, writing, and speaking (one-year level at Stanford)
Additional desired intern qualifications:
Required Skills
- Basic understanding of finance and economics
- Comfortable working with numbers (mathematics and statistics)
- Analytical thinking skills
- Team player
- Language: Korean (basic communication skills)
Preferred Skills
- Language: Korean (intermediate to fluent communication skills)
- Trading department: computer programming language skills (Python, C#, C++)
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- Students must be enrolled at Stanford in the quarter when they apply for an internship opportunity (Winter), and will need to be enrolled in undergraduate study in the quarter when grant funding is disbursed (Spring). Applicants participating in off-campus Stanford programs are welcome to apply, but it is the responsibility of the applicant to compile, collate, and submit a complete application.
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- International students must consult with Bechtel about interning in the U.S. or traveling out of the U.S. in the summer.
- Each applicant can apply for a maximum of two program-arranged positions. If you apply for more than two positions, we will only consider the first two positions submitted. EXCEPTIONS: your application for program-arranged positions in Belgium, Estonia, and Latvia, are exempt from this restriction. Although you are allowed to apply to multiple positions in these countries and you might be selected for multiple positions, you can only be awarded with one internship.
- The Program is open to all undergraduate students. Seniors* or co-terms are eligible as long as they do not confer their undergraduate degrees until after they complete their internships to remain eligible. Coterm students must still have undergraduate status. Positions in South Asia and Iranian Studies are also open to Master's students in all majors. Positions in East Asia are open to MA students majoring in East Asian Studies. Note*: Only seniors who will be returning to co-term for all of next year, are eligible to apply for positions in Belgium and Estonia.
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- Local language skills are based on the internship description requirements.
- Global Studies minors receive preference for the program.
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- To be eligible for a stipend, students must maintain health insurance for the duration of their internship.
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